Movies Like City on Fire

If you liked City on Fire (1979), a action movie directed by Alvin Rakoff, 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
Mad Max 2 (1981)
★ 7.4/10Also action
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot…
2
Mad Max (1979)
★ 6.7/10Also action
In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.
3
Mandy (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also action
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and…
4
Rampage: Capital Punishment (2014)
★ 6/10Also action
A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.
5
Grindhouse (2007)
★ 7/10Also action
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…
6
The Condemned (2007)
★ 6.1/10Also action
Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other…
7
Death Wish II (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also action
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
8
Foxy Brown (1974)
★ 6.3/10Also action
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
9
Pineapple Express (2008)
★ 6.6/10Also action
A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.
10
Crank: High Voltage (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also action
Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
11
Avengement (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also action
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
12
Death Wish 3 (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also action
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.
13
Planet Terror (2007)
★ 6.7/10Also action
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors…
14
Never Back Down: Revolt (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also action
An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face certain death.
15
Wake of Death (2004)
★ 6.1/10Also action
Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer, seeks revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the…
16
El Gringo (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also action
A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000—and a bloody past—finds himself under sudden attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras.
17
Becky (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also action
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
18
Accident Man (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also action
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
19
The Belko Experiment (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also action
A group of eighty American workers are locked in their office and ordered by an unknown voice to participate in a twisted game.
20
Murphy's Law (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also action
A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.