20 best movies like A Prophet (2009)

List of the best movies like A Prophet (2009): A Quiet Life, Lawless, Ultimate Heist, Stick, The Departed, Screwed, Police, A Walk Among the Tombstones, The Trust, The Next Three Days.

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, crime
CountryItaly, France, Germany
Duration01:45

The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Italy

The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own choices. But the gang's inner circle is engraved in blood. To escape, not only does Anton have to counter his own destiny, but also the man who has sworn to bring his father down.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

Ernest (Stick) Stickley just out of prison agrees to help a friend deliver a package. It's a setup and his friend is killed. Stick is going to find out why!

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Hong Kong
Duration02:31

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genredrama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:46

The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars James D'Arcy (Master & Commander), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew Shim (This Is England) and Kate Magowan (Stardust). The story revolves around former soldier Sam Norwood who takes a job as a prison officer when he returns from Iraq and becomes exposed to the underworld of prison culture - including corrupt guards and drug trafficking.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:53

Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA, France
Duration02:13

    A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:23

    After a group of Irish mobsters in Hell's Kitchen are sentenced to jail, their wives take their place—and do as good of a job, if not better.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

      Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:15

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

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryFrance

      Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter's life at the cost of manipulating her dreams and memories.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration02:08

      Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together to move to Venice, Italy.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, biography
      CountryNorway
      Duration01:27

      In the morning of April 5, 2004, the greatest bank robbery in Norwegian history was carried out in Stavanger. The robbery itself is the main character of the story, and it is illuminated from several angles in the course of the film, from the perspective of the police, the robbers, the central cash service personnel, and ordinary people

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:09

      Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:42

      In November 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin makes off with nearly 12 million euros, then turns himself over to the authorities a week later.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryBelgium, Luxembourg, France
      Duration01:37

      Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France

      Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

        Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration02:51

        The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        The film follows the personal relationship between a father and his two sons, one of whom is a hit-man for the Russian mafia in Brooklyn.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genreaction, drama, crime
        CountryItaly, France
        Duration01:52

        A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
        CountryUSA

        James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:56

        Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryFrance

        When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryRussia
        Duration01:49

        1990s. Gangster Kiev. A team of four men is assigned to deliver a girl from Prague, nicknamed "The Stranger." As the sister of a recently arrested criminal called Babai, her testimony could damage some important people.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryFrance, Italy

        The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
        Duration02:05

        A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, drama, crime
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:57

        Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die...

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryItaly, France

        Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
        CountryNetherlands

        Amsterdam, 1970s. A wealthy grammar school student Klaas and his friend start trafficking hash and become entangled in the brutal criminal scene.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, biography
        CountryFrance, Canada, Italy
        Duration02:10

        The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryFrance, Belgium
        Duration01:25

        Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryFrance, Italy
        Duration01:45

        Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.

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