20 best movies like Road to Perdition (2002)

List of the best movies like Road to Perdition (2002): A Most Violent Year, Outrage Coda, Stiletto, Run All Night, The Big Heat, The Killers, Vikram Vedha, The Enforcer, Rambo: Last Blood, I Am Wrath.

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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: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryJapan
Duration01:14

Ôtomo gets involved with new Yakuza battles after he comes back the Yakuza society.

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: 6.6
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

    Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, crime, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryIndia

    A notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in the form of riddles that needs to be solved in order to capture him.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, crime, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Sweden
    Duration01:01

    After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper María, disappears after crossing the border into Mexico to meet her biological father. Rambo, who has become a true father figure for Gabriela over the years, undertakes a desperate and dangerous journey to find her.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    The story of America's most famous mobsters and their rise to power. Examine Al Capone's ascension through the eyes of his second in command, “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryIndonesia
    Duration02:21

    A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:05

    After a massive shootout, a mysterious stranger (Van Damme) arrives at a local hospital on the brink of death. Then, a foreign gang brazenly comes to the hospital to hunt him down. His nurse, the sole surviving witness to the follow-up shootout, must face an FBI interrogation that unlocks a plot of international intrigue and revenge. With enough twists and turns, KILL'EM ALL will keep you guessing until the final bullet is fired.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea

    A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:50

    How can a split-second decision change your life? While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of low-life burglar Freddy Russell. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father, Ben, rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:30

    When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration02:12

    John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryIran, Germany
    Duration01:30

    In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryIndia

    Shahid Khan is exiled after impersonating the legendary Sultana Daku in order to rob British trains. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh's colliery, only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the turn of the decade, Shahid's son, the philandering Sardar Khan vows to get his father's honor back, becoming the most feared man of Wasseypur.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:13

    Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.

    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: 5.4
      Genrethriller
      CountryBelgium, France
      Duration01:40

      Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.

      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: 6.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:35

      After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.

      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: 6.1
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:30

      A father is without the means to pay for his daughter's medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino. When things go awry they're forced to hijack a city bus.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:14

      Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Jake is a driver for a seedy escort service operating out of 'The Naked Eye strip club', he's a street thug type who falls for a witty high-class escort named Sandy. Except one night Sandy is found murdered, the only clues left behind are cell phone calls made the night she died. To avenge Sandy's death Jake must risk everything and walk a bloody path to find her killer.

      Markimdb: 8.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryTurkey

      Ömer, a young man returning from military service, is set up by his friends and fiancé and ends up in prison for ten years. He fakes his own death and manages to escape. He re-creates himself as ‘Ezel’, a high-end gambler who is outwardly a successful man, but inwardly driven by one thing - his determination to understand why the people he loved betrayed him, and take his revenge.

      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: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:50

      In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      The Guvnors is a violent thriller set amongst the clans and firms of South East London, bringing two generations together in brutal conflict.

      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: 7.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

        Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy
        Duration02:47

        It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:57

        In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, China
        Duration01:58

        In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration02:05

        Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:09

          The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genreaction
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration02:17

          Dong-chul was the best special field agent in North Korea, but he’s abandoned by his government during a mission. While on the run, he looks for his wife and child, who were sold as slaves to China, only to discover their corpses. He soon finds out that his colleague was behind the killing and defects to the South in search of his nemesis. He looks for him during the day, and works as a temp driver at night and as a personal driver for Chairman PARK. One night the chairman is attacked and killed by an assassin, but not before handing over a pair of glasses to Dong-chul. He is now on the run again, accused of the chairman’s murder by the intelligence service, while trying to uncover the secret contained inside the glasses. Little did he know that depending on who ultimately gains control of the secret, it could either become a national threat or treasure.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genremelodrama, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:48

          Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrethriller, crime
          CountryItaly, USA
          Duration01:43

          A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genredrama, adventure, western
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration02:24

          A photographer struggling with memory loss discovers her pictures may indicate something sinister is hitting close to home.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
          Duration02:29

          Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

          Markimdb: 3.2
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryDominican Republic
          Duration01:18

          Five suspects holding a piece of the truth behind an unsolved crime.




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