Movies like American Gangster
24 films close to American Gangster (2007) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
new york city, organized crime, ghetto · Drama, Crime
rise and fall, drug smuggling, suspenseful · Drama, Crime
organized crime, rise and fall, suspenseful · Drama, Crime · Universal Pictures
new york city, gangster, nightclub · Drama, Crime · Universal Pictures
Also Ridley Scott · suspenseful, aftercreditsstinger · Drama, Crime · Scott Free Productions
new york city, organized crime, drug trafficking · Drama, Crime
surveillance, gangster · Drama, Crime · with John Ortiz · Universal Pictures
1960s, gangster · Drama, Crime
family, ghetto, cop · Drama, Crime
drug trafficking, police corruption · Drama, Crime · with Denzel Washington
new york city, gangster, nightclub · Drama, Crime
new york city, heroin, ghetto · Drama, Crime
new york city, organized crime, police corruption · Drama, Crime
organized crime, rise and fall, gangster · Drama, Crime
violence, organized crime, gangster · Drama, Crime
rise and fall, gangster · Drama, Crime · Universal Pictures
new york city, organized crime, gangster · Drama, Crime
ghetto, gangster · Drama, Crime
ambition, gangster · Drama, Crime
police corruption · Drama, Crime
organized crime, gangster · Drama, Crime
rise and fall, gangster · Drama, Crime
drug smuggling, drug trafficking, gangster · Drama, Crime
new york city, violence · Drama, Crime
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.