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Movies Like The Intent 2: The Come Up

If you liked The Intent 2: The Come Up (2018), a crime and drama movie directed by Femi Oyeniran and Nicky SlimTing Walker, 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. 1New Jack City

    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.

  2. 2Belly

    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…

  3. 3American Gangster

    American Gangster (2007)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime

    Loosely 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…

  4. 4Deep Cover

    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…

  5. 5Sleepless

    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…

  6. 6Training Day

    Training Day (2001)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama

    On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.

  7. 7In Too Deep

    In Too Deep (1999)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and crime

    Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an…

  8. 8The Corruptor

    The Corruptor (1999)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama

    Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets…

  9. 9Year of the Dragon

    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…

  10. 10Destroyer

    Destroyer (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

    When Erin Bell was a young cop, she was given an undercover assignment that ended badly and destroyed her life. Years later, she must face her demons in order to make peace with her past.

  11. 11The Substitute

    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…

  12. 12Last Man Standing

    Last Man Standing (1996)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime

    John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As…

  13. 13Copshop

    Copshop (2021)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station. However, when the hit man turns up at the precinct, an unsuspecting rookie cop finds herself caught…

  14. 14Havoc

    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.

  15. 15The Rookie

    The Rookie (1990)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

    Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help…

  16. 16Rush

    Rush (1991)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and drama

    Undercover cop Jim Raynor is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates, is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the…

  17. 17An Innocent Man

    An Innocent Man (1989)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama

    Jimmie 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…

  18. 18Beyond the Law

    Beyond the Law (1993)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Dan 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…

  19. 19Internal Affairs

    Internal Affairs (1990)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

    Keen 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…

  20. 20Stone Cold

    Stone Cold (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    Joe Huff is a tough, loner cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Huff into an undercover operation that entails infiltrating The Brotherhood – a powerful Mississippi biker gang…

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