Movies Like Route Irish
If you liked Route Irish (2011), a drama movie directed by Ken Loach, 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.
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Harry Brown (2009)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAn elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaPrivate eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled…
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Zulu (2013)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAs a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as…
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The Corruptor (1999)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaDanny 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…
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Too Late (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaPrivate investigator Mel Sampson is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past.
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Mulholland Falls (1996)
★ 6/10Also dramaIn 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
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The Rookie (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaVeteran 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…
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Red Road (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaJackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.
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American Gigolo (1980)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaJulian 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…
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Kill the Irishman (2011)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaOver 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…
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Taxi Driver (1976)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaSuffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
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Al Capone (1959)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaIn 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…
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River's Edge (1986)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to…
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The Substitute (1996)
★ 7/10Also dramaWhen 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…
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Warhorse One (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA gunned down Navy SEAL Master Chief must guide a child to safety through a gauntlet of hostile Taliban insurgents and survive the brutal Afghanistan wilderness.
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Jawbone (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaA former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…
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Death Wish II (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaPaul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
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Internal Affairs (1990)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaKeen 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…
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Redacted (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
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The Devil's Double (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.