Movies Like Essex Boys Retribution
If you liked Essex Boys Retribution (2013), a crime movie directed by Paul Tanter, 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.
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We Still Kill the Old Way (2014)
★ 6/10Also crimeA group of aging London gangsters go on a vigilante killing spree when one of their number is murdered by a street gang.
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Ill Manors (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also crimeEnsemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
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The Krays (1990)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeTwins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two…
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Gangs of New York (2002)
★ 7.3/10Also crimeIn early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He…
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Miller's Crossing (1990)
★ 7.4/10Also crimeSet in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)
★ 8.2/10Also crimeIn a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to…
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The Baytown Outlaws (2012)
★ 6/10Also crimeWhen three redneck brothers agree to help a woman save her son from an abusive father, they become targets on the run from an odd cast of characters.
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
★ 8.4/10Also crimeA 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.
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Death Wish 3 (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeArchitect/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.
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Switchblade Sisters (1975)
★ 6.3/10Also crimeThe leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.
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Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also crimeCarlton 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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Al Capone (1959)
★ 6.6/10Also crimeIn 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…
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The Corruptor (1999)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeDanny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets…
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The Substitute (1996)
★ 7/10Also crimeWhen an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon…
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Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeNothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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The Devil's Rejects (2005)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeThe murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.
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We Die Young (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also crimeLucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an…
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The Born Losers (1967)
★ 6.4/10Also crimeA biker gang incites a reign of terror in a California coastal town that culminates in four teenage girls being raped. Vietnam veteran Billy Jack has had enough, however, and takes on the depraved bikers…
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
★ 6.5/10Also crimeWhen athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no…
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The Long Good Friday (1980)
★ 7.2/10Also crimeIn the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the…