Movies like The Big Heat
If The Big Heat's mix of suicide, police and gangster stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Big Heat's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Faster
2010 · Directed by George Tillman Jr. · 98 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: police, cop, revenge · Also crime and thriller
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.
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The Departed
2006 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 151 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: police, gangster · Also thriller and crime
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.
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The Godfather Part II
1974 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 202 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, revenge
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and…
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Léon: The Professional
1994 · Directed by Luc Besson · 111 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, revenge
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda.
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Sexy Beast
2001 · Directed by Jonathan Glazer · 89 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also crime and thriller
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading…
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Death Sentence
2007 · Directed by James Wan · 105 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also crime and thriller
Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no…
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Lethal Weapon 3
1992 · Directed by Richard Donner · 118 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: police · Also thriller and crime
Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.
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The Killer
2023 · Directed by David Fincher · 118 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also crime and thriller
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
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Jolt
2021 · Directed by Tanya Wexler · 91 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: homicide · Also thriller and crime
A bouncer with an anger management problem goes on a furious and resentful rampage after the murder of a friend.
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John Wick
2014 · Directed by Chad Stahelski · 101 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, revenge
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
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Run All Night
2015 · Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra · 114 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also crime and thriller
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…
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Nighthawks
1981 · Directed by Bruce Malmuth · 99 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: police · Also crime and thriller
When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.