Movies Like City Hall

If you liked City Hall (1996), a drama and thriller movie directed by Harold Becker, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Alto Knights (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a…
2
Safe (2012)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and…
3
Cop Land (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and thriller
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s…
4
Broken City (2013)
★ 6/10Also thriller and drama
In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched…
5
F/X (1986)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt…
6
Gotti (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion…
7
Clockers (1995)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the…
8
We Own the Night (2007)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
9
American Gangster (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being…
10
New Jack City (1991)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and drama
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
11
The Yards (2000)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to…
12
Shaft (2000)
★ 6/10Also thriller
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial…
13
Donnie Brasco (1997)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and thriller
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
14
Q & A (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.
15
Serpico (1973)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
16
Relay (2025)
★ 7/10Also drama and thriller
A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive.
17
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
★ 8.4/10Also drama
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
18
The Siege (1998)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but…
19
Fresh (1994)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and thriller
Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.
20
Havoc (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and drama
When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.