Movies Like Night Falls on Manhattan
If you liked Night Falls on Manhattan (1997), a drama and crime movie directed by Sidney Lumet, 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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McQ (1974)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and dramaPolice Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
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Q & A (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also crimeA young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.
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Internal Affairs (1990)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and dramaKeen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to…
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American Gangster (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crimeLoosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being…
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Bad Lieutenant (1992)
★ 7/10Also crime and dramaWhile investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
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An Innocent Man (1989)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and dramaJimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a…
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Exit Wounds (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also crimeMaverick 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…
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Cop Land (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and dramaFreddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s…
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Rapid Fire (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and dramaCollege student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
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Brooklyn's Finest (2010)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and dramaEnforcing 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…
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Safe (2012)
★ 6.5/10Also crimeAfter a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and…
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Serpico (1973)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and dramaNew York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
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Beyond the Law (1993)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and dramaDan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous…
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Training Day (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and dramaOn his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
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New Jack City (1991)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and 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.
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Gone Baby Gone (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and dramaWhen 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The…
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Deep Cover (1992)
★ 6.8/10Also crimeBlack police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom…
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Out for Justice (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and dramaGino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.
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The Big Easy (1986)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and crimeRemy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow members of the police force may be involved.
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The Rip (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also crimeTrust frays when a team of Miami cops discovers millions in cash inside a run-down stash house, calling everyone — and everything — into question.