Movies like Soft Bullets
If Soft Bullets's mix of prison, assassin and corruption stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Soft Bullets's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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White Heat
1949 · Directed by Raoul Walsh · 114 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison, gangster, killer · Also crime and drama
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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Law Abiding Citizen
2009 · Directed by F. Gary Gray · 109 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison, assassin, bomb · Also drama and crime
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
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Gangster No. 1
2000 · Directed by Paul McGuigan · 103 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison, gangster, revenge · Also action and drama
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately…
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Léon: The Professional
1994 · Directed by Luc Besson · 111 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, corruption, gangster · Also crime and drama
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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Death Warrant
1990 · Directed by Deran Sarafian · 89 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: prison, revenge · Also action and crime
Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate the murders of prisoners and jailors. While there, Louis, using his outstanding martial arts skills, is able to save his life and make himself…
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison, corruption · Also drama and crime
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
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The Departed
2006 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 151 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, crime boss · Also drama 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 Wolf of Wall Street
2013 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 180 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: corruption, drugs · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (2010s)
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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Pulp Fiction
1994 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 154 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, crime boss
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper.
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Sexy Beast
2001 · Directed by Jonathan Glazer · 89 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also crime and drama
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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John Wick
2014 · Directed by Chad Stahelski · 101 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, revenge · From the same decade (2010s)
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 action and crime · From the same decade (2010s)
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…