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Movies Like Dark City

If you liked Dark City (2008), a movie directed by Ethan Kane, 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. 1Al Capone

    Al Capone (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder…

  2. 2The Protector

    The Protector (1985)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is…

  3. 3Rise of the Footsoldier

    Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)

    ★ 6.4/10

    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.

  4. 4The Krays

    The Krays (1990)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but doting mother Violet. As they grow up, Ronnie's violent nature takes over, and Reggie follows his brother's lead. The two…

  5. 5The Substitute

    The Substitute (1996)

    ★ 7/10

    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…

  6. 6American Gigolo

    American Gigolo (1980)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and…

  7. 7Magnum Force

    Magnum Force (1973)

    ★ 7.1/10

    "Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only…

  8. 8True Romance

    True Romance (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

  9. 9Death Wish II

    Death Wish II (1982)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.

  10. 10Too Late

    Too Late (2016)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Private investigator Mel Sampson is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past.

  11. 11Cleveland Abduction

    Cleveland Abduction (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10

    A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.

  12. 12Out for Justice

    Out for Justice (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Gino 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.

  13. 13Strange Darling

    Strange Darling (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

  14. 14The Revenant

    The Revenant (2009)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A horror movie/buddy comedy about Joey and his undead friend Bart who comes back from the dead as a revenant: an articulate zombie that needs to drink blood to arrest the decomposition of his body.

  15. 15The Corruptor

    The Corruptor (1999)

    ★ 6.1/10

    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…

  16. 16In the Blood

    In the Blood (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10

    When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.

  17. 17Death Wish 3

    Death Wish 3 (1985)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.

  18. 18Menace II Society

    Menace II Society (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.

  19. 19The Departed

    The Departed (2006)

    ★ 8.2/10

    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…

  20. 20The Outfit

    The Outfit (1973)

    ★ 6.8/10

    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…

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