Movies Like Lowlife

If you liked Lowlife (2017), a crime and thriller movie directed by Ryan Prows, 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
Grindhouse (2007)
★ 7/10Also thriller and horror
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…
2
Vice Squad (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and thriller
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
3
Savaged (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and horror
After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.
4
Assassination Games (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama
Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same…
5
Candy Land (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller
Remy, a seemingly naive and devout young woman, finds herself cast out from her religious cult. With no place to turn, she immerses herself into the underground world of truck stop sex workers. Under the watchful eye…
6
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and thriller
A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt…
7
Pink Flamingos (1972)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and crime
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The…
8
Southbound (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and horror
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister…
9
Bad (1977)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and comedy
Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work after he runs out of money. She…
10
Coffy (1973)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her…
11
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.
12
Accident Man (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and thriller
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.
13
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
Azrael (2024)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and thriller
In a world where no one speaks, a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the…
15
Spun (2003)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama
Over the course of three days, Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks – including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook – but all…
16
American Me (1992)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful…
17
The Substitute (1996)
★ 7/10Also crime and drama
When 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…
18
Thursday (1998)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller and comedy
A former Los Angeles drug dealer moves far away to Texas, making a new life for himself as a married architect in the suburbs. His old crime partner unexpectedly shows up with heroin and gangster business, attracting a…
19
Stretch (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and thriller
A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.
20
Kill the Irishman (2011)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and thriller
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's…