20 movies like Starred Up, ordered by similarity : The Laughing Policeman(1973), Chinatown(1974), Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime(1922), All Things to All Men(2012), Zodiac(2007), Prisoners(2013), Mardaani(2014), The Murder Man(1935), Snitch(2013), We Own the Night(2007), Cold in July(2014), Delivery Man(2013) ...
7.4/10
Crime, Drama
UK
2013
100 Minutes
Ben Mendelsohn Rupert Friend Jack O'Connell Sam Spruell David Ajala Peter Ferdinando Anthony Welsh Ashley Chin David Avery Gershwyn Eustache Jnr
teenager adult father gritty juvenile detention center facility violence business work pursuit
Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On his first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He's offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated?
6.4/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1973
111 Minutes
Walter Matthau Bruce Dern Louis Gossett Jr. Albert Paulsen Anthony Zerbe Anthony Costello Cathy Lee Crosby Shirley Ballard David Belrose Dawn Frame Louis Guss
detective police officer partner suspect murderer businessman dark tense san francisco bus police station street massacre investigation police work murder homosexuality violence mystery pursuit
In San Francisco, California, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.
8.1/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1974
131 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Faye Dunaway John Huston Perry Lopez John Hillerman Darryl Zwerling Diane Ladd Roy Jenson Roman Polanski Richard Bakalyan Joe Mantell
detective widow father sister private investigator wife disturbing sultry suspenseful gritty los angeles chinatown household car construction site corruption murder adultery redemption set-up
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
7.9/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Germany
1922
93 Minutes
Rudolf Klein-Rogge Aud Egede Nissen Gertrude Welcker Alfred Abel Bernhard Goetzke Paul Richter
criminal hypnotist gambler police detective businessman murderer dark intricate suspenseful thrilling nightclub city berlin police station asylum germany crime mind control psychiatry business
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
4.4/10
Crime, Drama
UK
2012
84 Minutes
Toby Stephens Rufus Sewell Gabriel Byrne Gil Darnell Leo Gregory Pierre Mascolo Terence Maynard Elsa Pataky Julian Sands MC Harvey Junior Quartey
thief crime boss criminal father son drug dealer detective thrilling gripping suspenseful london city united kingdom crime father/son relationship detective work robbery violence betrayal car chase
A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.
7.7/10
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
157 Minutes
Jake Gyllenhaal Mark Ruffalo Robert Downey Jr. Anthony Edwards Dermot Mulroney Brian Cox Elias Koteas Donal Logue John Carroll Lynch Clea DuVall Chloë Sevigny
reporter police officer detective serial killer child creepy gritty suspenseful san francisco bus california police station school obsession murder newspapers violence crime paranoia mystery
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
8.1/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2013
153 Minutes
Hugh Jackman Jake Gyllenhaal Viola Davis Maria Bello Terrence Howard Melissa Leo Paul Dano Dylan Minnette Zoë Soul Erin Gerasimovich Kyla-Drew Simmons
father daughter young girl best friend detective suspect dark intense boston family home police station rv father/daughter relationship missing persons disappearance police work vigilantism pursuit sacrifice revenge
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.
7.3/10
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
India
2014
152 Minutes
Rani Mukherji Sanjay Taneja Tahir Bhasin
young woman detective police officer trafficker child gritty gripping intense disturbing india city police station forest street police work police pursuit child exploitation sex trade quest pursuit
A story of Shivani Shivaji Roy, Crime Branch, who sets out to confront the mastermind behind a child trafficking mafia.
6.8/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1935
70 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Virginia Bruce Lionel Atwill Harvey Stephens Robert Barrat James Stewart William Collier Bobby Watson William Demarest John Sheehan Lucien Littlefield
newspaper reporter gossip columnist police officer business partner father editor dark brooding shocking suspenseful newsroom sing sing correctional facility new york city shooting gallery newspapers murder investigation father/son relationship deception cover-up mystery
When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.
6.4/10
Crime, Drama
USA|United Arab Emirates|UK
2013
112 Minutes
Dwayne Johnson Barry Pepper Jon Bernthal Michael Kenneth Williams Melina Kanakaredes Nadine Velazquez Rafi Gavron David Harbour Benjamin Bratt Susan Sarandon Lela Loren
teen boy father police officer drug dealer district attorney brooding gritty tense household police station los angeles mexican-american border drug cartel undercover operations false accusations father/son relationship pursuit revenge 2010s
A father goes undercover for the DEA in order to free his son, who was imprisoned after being set up in a drug deal.
6.8/10
Crime, Drama
USA
2007
118 Minutes
Joaquin Phoenix Mark Wahlberg Eva Mendes Robert Duvall Antoni Corone Moni Moshonov Alex Veadov Tony Musante
club owner drug lord father police chief girlfriend friend brooding suspenseful brooklyn, n.y. club death pursuit drugs police work revenge pursuit revenge transformation 1980s
A New York City nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian Mafia hitmen.
6.8/10
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
USA|France
2014
109 Minutes
Michael C. Hall Sam Shepard Vinessa Shaw Don Johnson Nick Damici Wyatt Russell Brogan Hall Lanny Flaherty
father ex-convict criminal murderer thrilling tense bleak gritty united states crime scene texas countryside country road police station crime murder fatherhood past crimes violence pursuit
When a protective father meets a murderous ex-con, both need to deviate from the path they are on as they soon find themselves entangled in a downwards spiral of lies and violence while having to confront their own inner psyche.
6.4/10
Comedy
USA|India|Canada
2013
105 Minutes
Vince Vaughn Chris Pratt Cobie Smulders Andrzej Blumenfeld Simon Delaney Bobby Moynihan Dave Patten Adam Chanler-Berat Britt Robertson Jack Reynor Amos Vanderpoel
sperm donor slacker truck driver girlfriend friend father charming heartwarming amusing new york city truck doctor's office house courtroom city sperm donation family business fatherhood father/son relationship father/daughter relationship
An affable underachiever finds out he's fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago. Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his identity.
6.7/10
Drama, Romance
Australia
2003
105 Minutes
Toni Collette Gotaro Tsunashima Matthew Dyktynski Lynette Curran Yumiko Tanaka Kate Atkinson John Howard Bill Young Reg Evans George Shevtsov Justine Clarke
business owner woman businessman australian japanese man relaxing dreamy quirky office desert australia culture clash adultery stranded interracial romance business work love discovery temptation
Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Drama
USA
1936
85 Minutes
Pat O'Brien Ross Alexander Beverly Roberts Humphrey Bogart Marie Wilson Henry B. Walthall Joseph Crehan Joe King Addison Richards Ruth Robinson Wayne Morris
engineer entrepreneur business partner aviator wife father gripping thrilling inspiring washington, d.c. new york city airplane honolulu cuba father/son relationship husband/wife relationship business aviation aspirations work vs. family
Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes.
Crime, Drama
1960
144 Minutes
Toshirô Mifune Takeshi Kato Masayuki Mori Kyoko Kagawa Tatsuya Mihashi Takashi Shimura Kô Nishimura
daughter son father businessman vice president lawyer outlandish eerie japan wedding cemetery office revenge suicide corporate greed corruption cover-up rivalry wretched excess pursuit
Japanese police and a tycoon's (Masayuki Mori) son-in-law (Toshirô Mifune) discover deadly corporate corruption.
6.6/10
Crime, Drama
France|Switzerland
2001
124 Minutes
Stefano Cassetti Isild Le Besco Patrick Dell'Isola Vincent Deneriaz Aymeric Chauffert Viviana Aliberti Estelle Perron
serial killer teenager mother father detective police officer intense bleak raw disturbing beach resort france switzerland road roberto succo crime spree infatuation murder investigation insanity
'Kurt' claims to be a sales rep. He also claims to be English in spite of his heavy Italian accent. Kurt is an habitual liar and a dangerous driver, at the very least. In the south of ... See full summary »
7.8/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1973
95 Minutes
Martin Sheen Sissy Spacek Warren Oates Ramon Bieri Alan Vint Gary Littlejohn John Carter Bryan Montgomery Gail Threlkeld Charles Fitzpatrick
teen girl killer father bounty hunter police officers boyfriend brooding brutal profound south dakota montana woods house highway car murder escape young love teenage rebellion forbidden love
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
7.3/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
82 Minutes
Ida Lupino Robert Ryan Ward Bond Charles Kemper Anthony Ross Ed Begley Ian Wolfe Sumner Williams Gus Schilling Frank Ferguson Cleo Moore
police detective sister killer father partner captain dark gritty brooding new york city police station apartment countryside cabin investigation brother/sister relationship murder mental breakdown blindness redemption
Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.
7.1/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1991
107 Minutes
Bill Paxton Cynda Williams Billy Bob Thornton Michael Beach Jim Metzler Earl Billings Natalie Canerday
drug dealer girlfriend killer sheriff detective son thrilling gritty dark los angeles houston arkansas small town household murder on the run drug trade investigation road trip violence
A small town police chief awaits the arrival of a gang of killers.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
2019
101 Minutes
Cosmo Jarvis Barry Keoghan Niamh Algar Ned Dennehy David Wilmot Simone Kirby Anthony Welsh Hazel Doupe Roisin O'neill Ryan McParland Toni O'Rourke
crime boss enforcer father boxer brooding disheartening dark gritty raw shocking tense rural community ireland family loyalty crime conflict of interest violence fall rivalry
A former boxer cares for his autistic son while working as an enforcer for a family of drug dealers in rural Ireland.
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