Movies Like American Gangster

If you liked American Gangster (2007), a drama and crime movie directed by Ridley Scott, 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
Donnie Brasco (1997)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
2
Year of the Dragon (1985)
★ 6.8/10Also crime
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized…
3
Serpico (1973)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
4
New Jack City (1991)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and drama
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.
5
Paid in Full (2002)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
Ace 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…
6
Sleepless (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also crime
Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who has a lot of enemies, is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal…
7
The Alto Knights (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a…
8
Joe (1970)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime
After murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran, a drunken bigot with a bloodlust who works at a local factory.
9
Rapid Fire (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
10
Belly (1998)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama
Tommy 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…
11
Dark Blue (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
12
Miller's Crossing (1990)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and crime
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
13
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and crime
A 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.
14
Deep Cover (1992)
★ 6.8/10Also crime
Black 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…
15
The Rip (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also crime
Trust frays when a team of Miami cops discovers millions in cash inside a run-down stash house, calling everyone — and everything — into question.
16
The Departed (2006)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and crime
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a…
17
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and crime
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
18
Blow (2001)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama
The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.
19
Havoc (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama
When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.
20
End of Watch (2012)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.