Films like American Gangster
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 detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
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Donnie Brasco
Film · 1997 · also crime and dramaAn FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
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Paid in Full
Film · 2002 · also crime and dramaAce is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in...
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Year of the Dragon
Film · 1985 · also crimeIn 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...
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Joe
Film · 1970 · also crime and dramaAfter murdering his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend, a wealthy ad executive stumbles into a bar and strikes up an uneasy alliance with Joe Curran, a drunken bigot with...
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Serpico
Film · 1973 · also crime and dramaNew York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
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Sleepless
Film · 2017 · also crimeUndercover 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. Whe...
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Blow
Film · 2001 · also crime and dramaThe story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.
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New Jack City
Film · 1991 · also crime and dramaA 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 t...
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Belly
Film · 1998 · also crime and dramaTommy 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...
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Havoc
Film · 2025 · also crime and dramaWhen 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.
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