38 Movies Like Gangs of New York (2002) You Need to Watch Next

1991 · John Singleton

In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's friends, on the othe

In common: Crime · Drama

2009 · Michael Mann

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate

In common: Crime · Drama · History

2002 · Fernando Meirelles

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighbo

In common: Crime · Drama

1972 · Francis Ford Coppola

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his y

In common: Crime · Drama

1990 · Martin Scorsese

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conw

In common: Crime · Drama

1984 · Sergio Leone

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.

In common: Crime · Drama

2007 · Ridley Scott

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, be

In common: Crime · Drama

1993 · Robert De Niro

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growi

In common: Crime · Drama

2019 · Martin Scorsese

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chi

In common: Crime · Drama · History

1997 · Mike Newell

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

In common: Crime · Drama

1993 · Allen Hughes

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

In common: Crime · Drama

2026 · Tom Harper

After his estranged son gets embroiled in a Nazi plot, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby must return to Birmingham to save his family — and his nation.

In common: Crime · Drama

1983 · Brian De Palma

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eve

In common: Crime · Drama

1990 · Francis Ford Coppola

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

In common: Crime · Drama

2024 · Jeff Nichols

After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose betwee

In common: Crime · Drama

2012 · John Hillcoat

In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operat

In common: Crime · Drama

1983 · Francis Ford Coppola

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their str

In common: Crime · Drama

2008 · Clint Eastwood

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

In common: Drama

2019 · Destin Daniel Cretton

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despi

In common: Crime · Drama · History

2000 · Darren Aronofsky

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

In common: Crime · Drama

2018 · Jim Donovan

On the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old 'Lisa McVey' is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive and is raped. She manages to talk her attacker into releasing her, but whe

In common: Crime · Drama

2019 · Joe Berlinger

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

In common: Crime · Drama

1967 · Stuart Rosenberg

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admi

In common: Crime · Drama

2021 · Joe Russo

Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq—anchored only by his one true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to

In common: Crime · Drama

2007 · Richard LaGravenese

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

In common: Crime · Drama

2002 · Steven Spielberg

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his

In common: Crime · Drama

2003 · Lars von Trier

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

In common: Crime · Drama

1974 · Michael Winner

After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.

In common: Crime · Drama

2013 · Park Hoon-jung

An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.

In common: Crime · Drama

1981 · Michael Mann

Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a ho

In common: Crime · Drama

1994 · Joel Schumacher

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he te

In common: Crime · Drama

1994 · Luc Besson

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year

In common: Crime · Drama

1983 · John Landis

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.

In common: Crime · Drama

2002 · Walter Hill

Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lo

In common: Crime · Drama

1974 · Francis Ford Coppola

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vega

1987 · Brian De Palma

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.

In common: Crime · History

2015 · Brian Helgeland

Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orche

In common: Crime

2015 · F. Gary Gray

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: thei

In common: Drama · History