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Movies Like Dog Eat Dog

If you liked Dog Eat Dog (2016), a drama and crime movie directed by Paul Schrader, 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. 1Brooklyn's Finest

    Brooklyn's Finest (2010)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes…

  2. 2Rise of the Footsoldier

    Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and thriller

    Carlton 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.

  3. 3Assault on Precinct 13

    Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

    ★ 7.3/10Also thriller and crime

    A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

  4. 4Training Day

    Training Day (2001)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama

    On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

  5. 5Kiss of the Dragon

    Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and thriller

    Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.

  6. 6The Valachi Papers

    The Valachi Papers (1972)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred…

  7. 7Killer Joe

    Killer Joe (2012)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and thriller

    A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.

  8. 8Tightrope

    Tightrope (1984)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and crime

    Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his…

  9. 9Until Death

    Until Death (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller and crime

    Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.

  10. 10Exit Wounds

    Exit Wounds (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and thriller

    Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he…

  11. 11New Jack City

    New Jack City (1991)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller and crime

    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.

  12. 12A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

    A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and crime

    The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local…

  13. 13Menace II Society

    Menace II Society (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime

    A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

  14. 14The Corruptor

    The Corruptor (1999)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and thriller

    Danny 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…

  15. 15Foxy Brown

    Foxy Brown (1974)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and thriller

    A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

  16. 16Brawl in Cell Block 99

    Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also crime and thriller

    After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in…

  17. 17Close Range

    Close Range (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and thriller

    A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.

  18. 18Crimes of Passion

    Crimes of Passion (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…

  19. 19Zulu

    Zulu (2013)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and drama

    As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as…

  20. 20River's Edge

    River's Edge (1986)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama

    A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to…

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