If You Liked The Samaritan, Watch These Next
Finished The Samaritan (2012) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Samaritan, most of them are thriller.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Waist Deep(2006)
6.6ActionAdventureDramaAlso thriller
An ex-convict gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
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3.The Limey(1999)
6.5CrimeDramaThrillerAlso thriller
The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a…
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4.Raw Deal(1948)
6.7CrimeThrillerAlso thriller
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pulled. Rick sets up an escape for Joe, assuming that Joe will be killed while fleeing. But with the help of his love-struck girl Pat and his sympathetic legal caseworker…
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6.What Josiah Saw(2021)
5.9HorrorThrillerAlso thriller
A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.
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7.White Heat(1949)
7.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso thriller
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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9.Bad Boys(1983)
7.0CrimeDramaThrillerAlso thriller
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
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11.Butterfly on a Wheel(2007)
6.4CrimeDramaThrillerAlso thriller
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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12.Rise of the Footsoldier(2007)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso thriller
Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.
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13.Snitch(2013)
6.1ActionDramaThrillerAlso thriller
Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA…
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14.At Close Range(1986)
6.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso thriller
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man.
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15.Cape Fear(1991)
7.3DramaCrimeThrillerAlso thriller
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have…
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16.Breakwater(2023)
5.9ThrillerDramaAlso thriller
A young ex-con risks his newfound freedom to track down the estranged daughter of a fellow inmate, and unknowingly brings a devil from her past straight to her doorstep.
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17.The Betrayed(2008)
5.8CrimeDramaMysteryAlso thriller
Kidnappers force a young mother to recover money stolen by her shady husband.
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18.A Score to Settle(2019)
5.8ActionCrimeDramaAlso thriller
A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.
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19.King of New York(1990)
6.8ThrillerCrimeAlso thriller
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
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