20 movies like Once Upon a Time in America, ordered by similarity : Blue Story(2019), A Prophet(2009), The Public Enemy(1931), The Departed(2006), The Concrete Jungle(1960), Company(2002), Shagird(2011), Hera Pheri(1975), The Beast of the City(1932), Sicario(2015), Northwest(2013), Veteran(2015) ...
Drama, Crime
Italy|USA
1984
139 Minutes
Robert De Niro James Woods Elizabeth McGovern Treat Williams Tuesday Weld Burt Young Joe Pesci Danny Aiello William Forsythe James Hayden Darlanne Fluegel
mafia boss bootlegger gang member police chief girlfriend mobster bleak intense gripping lower east side brooklyn, n.y. buffalo, n.y. street big city organized crime coming of age prohibition corruption america growth
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.
Crime, Drama
UK
2019
91 Minutes
Stephen Odubola Micheal Ward Rohan Nedd Kadeem Ramsay Khali Best Junior Afolabi Salokun Karla-Simone Spence Eric Kofi Abrefa Jo Martin
friend rival gang member teenage mother love interest best friend bleak dreamy gripping intense uneasy gritty london inner city high school neighborhood street subway city life gang war
Feature adaptation of Rapman's YouTube series about two young friends who become rivals in a street war.
Crime, Drama
France|Italy
2009
154 Minutes
Tahar Rahim Niels Arestrup Adel Bencherif Hichem Yacoubi Reda Kateb Antoine Basler Gilles Cohen Pascal Henault Foued Nassah Jean-Emmanuel Pagni
convict mobster prisoner engaging gripping tense france prison crime ambition murder organized crime prison racism growing up discovery rivalry rise 2000s
A young Algerian man is sent to a French prison.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
84 Minutes
James Cagney Jean Harlow Mae Clarke Edward Woods Beryl Mercer Donald Cook Joan Blondell
gangster bootlegger police officer veteran friend melodramatic brash gripping suspenseful prison chicago slum nightclub bar organized crime gangs prohibition great depression family dysfunction growing up
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA|Hong Kong
2006
152 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Matt Damon Jack Nicholson Mark Wahlberg Martin Sheen Ray Winstone Vera Farmiga Alec Baldwin James Badge Dale David O'Hara Mark Rolston
mobster criminal cop informant girlfriend wife dark intense gritty tense suspenseful frightening boston police station bar vehicle city apartment secret hideout crime mafia
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Crime, Drama
1960
97 Minutes
Stanley Baker Sam Wanamaker Margit Saad Gregoire Aslan Jill Bennett Laurence Naismith Edward Judd Patrick Magee
criminal mastermind gang member traitor ex-convict girlfriend bleak engaging gripping intense suspenseful prison crime scene city robbery imprisonment torture kidnapping blackmail money
The mastermind (Stanley Baker) of a racetrack robbery escapes from prison to the loot and is double-crossed by his gang.
Crime, Drama
India
2002
155 Minutes
Ajay Devgn Vivek Oberoi Manisha Koirala Antara Mali Seema Biswas Mohanlal Ganesh Yadav Rajpal Yadav Vijay Raaz Isha Koppikar Urmila Matondkar
don criminal police officer police commissioner gangster thrilling intense gripping dark dense india city house street crime crime spree criminals jealousy rivalry quest
A small-time gangster named Chandu teams up with Malik, a low-level enforcer for a criminal syndicate. Together they eliminate all their enemies, becoming the most feared gangsters in Mumbai.
Crime, Drama, Action
India
2011
128 Minutes
Nana Patekar Mohit Ahlawat Rimi Sen Anurag Kashyap Zakir Hussain
inspector police officer wife son journalist media personality intense gripping powerful inspiring profound india city police station house corruption corrupt police fighting corruption bribery political corruption
A rookie cop questions the tactics of his superior, and attempts to track the abductors of his girlfriend.
Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action
India
1975
164 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Saira Banu Kimi Katkar Vinod Khanna Sulakshana Pandit Deepa Sahi Shilpa Shirodkar
young man young woman friend best friend father girlfriend amusing gripping thrilling intense emotional moving india city house bungalow restaurant street friendship best friends
Two friends Ajay and Vijay gets separated from each other when they discover secrets about their past in their own ways.
Crime, Drama
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Walter Huston Jean Harlow Wallace Ford Jean Hersholt Dorothy Peterson Tully Marshall John Miljan Emmett Corrigan Warner Richmond Sandy Roth J. Carrol Naish
police chief detective mobster femme fatale wife district attorney brutal gritty wild chicago police station nightclub street organized crime police corruption sibling rivalry deception prohibition violence temptation
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA|Mexico|Hong Kong
2015
121 Minutes
Emily Blunt Benicio Del Toro Josh Brolin Victor Garber Jon Bernthal Daniel Kaluuya Jeffrey Donovan Raoul Trujillo Julio Cesar Cedillo Bernardo Saracino
fbi agent government official hit man drug czar police officer mexican brooding emotional intense bleak thrilling mexican-american border car warehouse street drug house hotel drugs assassination surveillance
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Crime, Drama, Action
2013
91 Minutes
Lene Maria Christensen Roland Møller Dulfi Al-Jabouri Gustav Dyekjær Giese Oscar Dyekjær Giese Annemieke Bredahl Peppink Nicholas Westwood Kidd Sandra El-Hussein Clement Black Petersen Marina Vorobyeva Jelena Bundalovic
young man brother gang member friend brooding brutal dark disturbing gritty raw tense copenhagen inner city crime poverty ambition violence power underdog rivalry
Casper lives in one of Copenhagen's most impoverished areas and does what it takes to survive. When organized crime moves into the community, Casper digs in to resist being run out.
Comedy, Action, Crime, Drama
South Korea
2015
124 Minutes
Jeong-min Hwang Yu Ah-in Hae-jin Yoo Dal-su Oh Man-shik Jeong Woong-in Jeong Yoon-ju Jang Shi-hoo Kim
investigator detective criminal millionaire young man heir confident cool engaging gripping intense powerful city street south korea crime abuse of power determination investigation wealth
A honest cop seeks justice for a common man against all odds. A rich boy seeks revenge on the cop.
Crime, Drama
UK
2014
94 Minutes
Ian Ogilvy Alison Doody Christopher Ellison Danny-Boy Hatchard Lysette Anthony James Cosmo Steven Berkoff Dani Dyer Tony Denham Anouska Mond Red Madrell
villain englishman murderer murder victim gang leader gang member gang members gripping tense thrilling london united kingdom city england spain murder crime rivalry investigation gangs
When retired East End villain Charlie Archer is murdered by a feral street gang, his brother Ritchie returns to London from Spain to investigate.
Romance, Crime, Drama
2014
93 Minutes
Jessica Sula Lucien Laviscount Naomi Ryan Lauren Johns Tosin Cole Ntonga Mwanza Danielle Vitalis Savannah Gordon-Liburd Modupe Adeyeye
teen girl gang leader gang member teen boy bully bleak brutal dark emotional gripping powerful tense uneasy london united kingdom school street gangs revenge passion
Layla, a 15-year-old living in Brixton, becomes involved with a gang and must set up a boy to be killed.
Crime, Drama
USA
1983
170 Minutes
Al Pacino Michelle Pfeiffer Steven Bauer Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Robert Loggia Miriam Colon F. Murray Abraham Paul Shenar Harris Yulin Ángel Salazar Arnaldo Santana
drug lord friend kingpin detective girlfriend dark brutal gory intense miami household restaurant drug trade organized crime drug addiction violence corruption self-destruction rise fall
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Crime, Drama
USA
1993
144 Minutes
Al Pacino Sean Penn Penelope Ann Miller Luis Guzman John Alberto Leguizamo Ingrid Rogers James Rebhorn Joseph Siravo Viggo Mortensen Richard Foronjy Jorge Porcel
ex-convict lawyer friend dancer girlfriend gangster tense gritty emotional new york city nightclub courtroom big city criminal underworld crime shady dealings drugs gangsters murder ex-convicts
A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.
Action, Crime, Drama
India
2015
149 Minutes
Ranbir Kapoor Anushka Sharma Karan Johar Vivaan Shah Kay Kay Menon Raveena Tandon Mukesh Chhabra Manish Chaudhary Jagdish Rajpurohit Satyadeep Misra Sandesh Jadhav
young man young woman jazz singer boxer club owner wealthy man confident fascinating intense charming passionate mumbai, india india city club street hotel street fighting jazz blackmail
An ordinary man goes against all odds and forges his destiny to become a 'Big Shot'.
Crime, Drama
UK
2016
116 Minutes
George Webster Simon Cotton Kevin Leslie Josh Myers Adrian Bouchet Clare McGlinn Alexa Morden Paul Blackwell
brother wife gangster criminal police officer rival bleak brutal dark disturbing emotional gritty london street home office big city nightclub empire brother relationship
Simon Cotton as Ronnie Kray and Kevin Leslie as Reggie Kray, picks up the story of the infamous Firm as the sanity of the two brothers bring uncertainties to their business plans . now with... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Germany|USA
1998
138 Minutes
Samuel L. Jackson Kevin Spacey David Morse Ron Rifkin John Spencer J.T. Walsh Regina Taylor Siobhan Fallon Hogan Paul Giamatti
negotiator police officer hostage con artist wife embezzler tense gripping thrilling intense chicago police station house office building street big city hostage situation embezzlement framed for murder police corruption
In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.
Crime, Drama
USA
1938
97 Minutes
James Cagney Pat O'Brien Humphrey Bogart Ann Sheridan George Bancroft William Pawley John Hamilton Earle Dwire William Worthington
gangster priest child lawyer gritty emotional hell's kitchen street friendship crime corruption gangs sacrifice growing up rise 1930s
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.