Movies Like Spades

If you liked Spades (2026), a action and crime movie directed by Johnny Yong Bosch, 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
Batman: Year One (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also action and crime
A wealthy playboy named Bruce Wayne and a Chicago cop named Jim Gordon both return to Gotham City where their lives unexpectedly intersect.
2
Welcome to the Punch (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also action and crime
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
3
Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also action and crime
Six interlocking stories reveal Bruce Wayne's earliest adventures as Batman and the steps he took to become the grim avenger of Gotham City.
4
Death Wish 3 (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also action and crime
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
5
Magnum Force (1973)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and action
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only…
6
Code 8 Part II (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also action and crime
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
7
In Too Deep (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also action and crime
Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an…
8
Overdrive (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also action
Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.
9
Trigger Point (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also action
Nicolas Shaw is a retired U.S. special operative who becomes part of an elite 'invisible' team that quietly takes out the worst villains around the world.
10
Seeking Justice (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also action
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
11
The Enforcer (2022)
★ 7/10Also action and crime
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to…
12
Absolution (2024)
★ 5.9/10Also action and crime
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children…
13
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also action and crime
Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.
14
Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
★ 7.8/10Also crime
One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code.
15
Wire Room (2022)
★ 6/10Also action and crime
New recruit Justin Rosa must monitor arms-smuggling cartel member Eddie Flynn — and keep him alive at all costs. When a SWAT team descends on Flynn’s home, Rosa breaks protocol and contacts the gangster directly to…
16
Al Capone (1959)
★ 6.6/10Also action and crime
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder…
17
Hollow Point (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also action
When his wife and daughter are senselessly murdered, a grieving man finds himself caught up in a war between a group of charismatic vigilantes and the crime that infests their city.
18
Art of Eight Limbs (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also action
Four canisters of deadly VX nerve gas have fallen into the hands of an international arms dealer in Myanmar. A CIA recruit delivers a high-tech detection device to an agent already on the ground.
19
The Double (2011)
★ 5.8/10Also action and crime
The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the…
20
One Mile: Chapter Two (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also action and crime
Former special forces operative Danny is forced back onto a remote island when a violent, secretive community takes revenge by abducting his daughter Alex, launching a relentless hunt against enemies prepared for his…