Movies like Clockers
If Clockers's mix of drug pusher, train and drugs stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Clockers's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Bound by Honor
1993 · Directed by Taylor Hackford · 190 min8.2
Why you'll like itWith Delroy Lindo · Shares: drugs · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A.
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Fresh
1994 · Directed by Boaz Yakin · 114 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: drugs, brooklyn, new york city · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
Death and violence anger twelve year old drug courier Fresh, who sets his rival employers against each other.
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The Infiltrator
2016 · Directed by Brad Furman · 127 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drugs, drug lord · Also crime and drama
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
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We Own the Night
2007 · Directed by James Gray · 118 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drugs, brooklyn, new york city · Also drama and crime
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
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Paid in Full
2002 · Directed by Charles Stone III · 98 min6.9
Why you'll like itWith Mekhi Phifer · Also crime and drama
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket.
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New Jack City
1991 · Directed by Mario Van Peebles · 101 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drugs · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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Veronica Guerin
2003 · Directed by Joel Schumacher · 98 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: drug lord · Also drama and crime
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible.
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Rapid Fire
1992 · Directed by Dwight H. Little · 95 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: drug lord · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
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A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 · Directed by Scott Frank · 114 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: drugs · Also crime and drama
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.