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Movies Like The restaurant father

If you liked The restaurant father (2024), a drama and crime movie directed by João Pomelo, 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. 1Belly

    Belly (1998)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking…

  2. 2Absolution

    Absolution (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also 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…

  3. 3The Many Saints of Newark

    The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in…

  4. 4The Godfather Part III

    The Godfather Part III (1990)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama

    In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

  5. 5Blood Ties

    Blood Ties (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama

    Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

  6. 6A Bronx Tale

    A Bronx Tale (1993)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama and crime

    Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction…

  7. 7The Godfather

    The Godfather (1972)

    ★ 8.7/10Also drama and crime

    Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son…

  8. 8Winged Creatures

    Winged Creatures (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

    A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an…

  9. 9180

    180 (2026)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

    When an unexpected road rage incident puts his son in critical condition, an enraged father spirals down a dark path of emotional turmoil and vengeance.

  10. 10Mean Streets

    Mean Streets (1973)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and crime

    A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

  11. 11Gangster Squad

    Gangster Squad (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

    Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west…

  12. 12Gloria

    Gloria (1980)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

    When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

  13. 13Colombiana

    Colombiana (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and drama

    After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante…

  14. 14Siberian Education

    Siberian Education (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime

    The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against…

  15. 15Code of Silence

    Code of Silence (1985)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime

    A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

  16. 16Shaft

    Shaft (1971)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

    Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

  17. 17Diablo

    Diablo (2025)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama

    Ex-con Kris Chaney seizes the daughter of a Colombian gangster to fulfill a noble promise to the young girl's mother. When her father enlists both the criminal underworld and a psychotic killer to exact his revenge…

  18. 18Shaft

    Shaft (2000)

    ★ 6/10Also crime

    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…

  19. 19Violent Ends

    Violent Ends (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    A man raised in a violent crime family struggles to build an honest life with his fiancée but is dragged back into the criminal world after his cousin’s armed robbery leaves an innocent person caught in the crossfire.

  20. 20In Too Deep

    In Too Deep (1999)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama 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…

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