Movies Like Everyday People
If you liked Everyday People (2004), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Jim McKay, 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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Boiling Point (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.
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Belly (1998)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaTommy 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…
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Collision (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaOver the course of one fateful day, a corrupt businessman and his socialite wife race to save their daughter from a notorious crime lord.
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Paid in Full (2002)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAce is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing…
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Gangs of New York (2002)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaIn 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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Night Always Comes (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaFacing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
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Gotti (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and tv movieJohn Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion…
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Do the Right Thing (1989)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaSal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a…
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Mean Streets (1973)
★ 7/10Also dramaA small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
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Winged Creatures (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA 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…
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The Iceman (2012)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaThe true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.
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A Most Violent Year (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and…
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Hands of Stone (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaThe legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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The Substitute (1996)
★ 7/10Also dramaWhen 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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American Psycho (2000)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
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Clockers (1995)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaStrike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the…
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
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Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movieA showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past. Each…
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A History of Violence (2005)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaAn average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
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New Jack City (1991)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA 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.