Movies Like Ate, Kuya, and the Rule

If you liked Ate, Kuya, and the Rule (2018), a movie directed by Mark Gregory Bayani, 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
The Walking Dead (1936)
★ 6.3/10
Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is…
2
Western Union (1941)
★ 6/10
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.
3
Power (1986)
★ 5.8/10
Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to…
4
The Outfit (1973)
★ 6.7/10
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed…
5
5 Card Stud (1968)
★ 6.3/10
After a card shark is caught cheating, he is taken out and lynched by the drunkards he was playing against. Soon afterwards, the men who were in the lynch mob start being murdered, one after another; all by hanging.
6
The Glass Key (1942)
★ 6.7/10
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
7
Perfect Stranger (2007)
★ 5.8/10
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
8
Influencers (2025)
★ 6.2/10
In the picturesque landscapes of Southern France, a young woman's chilling fascination with murder and identity theft sends her life into a whirlwind of chaos.
9
The Raven (2012)
★ 6.3/10
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
10
Out of the Past (1947)
★ 7.7/10
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
11
Nick of Time (1995)
★ 6.2/10
An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
12
No Man of God (2021)
★ 6.6/10
The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.
13
The Parole Officer (2001)
★ 5.8/10
A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will…
14
Saw X (2023)
★ 7.1/10
Between the events of 'Saw' and 'Saw II', a sick and desperate John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer, only to discover the entire…
15
This Gun for Hire (1942)
★ 7/10
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new…
16
Posse (1975)
★ 6.1/10
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.
17
Blood Simple (1985)
★ 7.3/10
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them…
18
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
★ 6.8/10
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district…
19
Halloween (1978)
★ 7.6/10
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
20
The Natural (1984)
★ 6.9/10
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.