Movies like The American
If The American's mix of mission, assassin and prostitute stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The American's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Godfather Part III
1990 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 162 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: italy, revenge · Also crime and drama
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.
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John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · Directed by Chad Stahelski · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: assassin, revenge · Also thriller and crime · From the same decade (2010s)
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of…
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The Godfather Part II
1974 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 202 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: italy, revenge · Also drama and crime
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: assassin, revenge · 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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The Godfather
1972 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 175 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: italy · Also drama and crime
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son,…
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The Equalizer 3
2023 · Directed by Antoine Fuqua · 109 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: italy · Also thriller and crime
Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by…
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Desperado
1995 · Directed by Robert Rodriguez · 104 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also thriller and crime
El Mariachi plunges headfirst into the dark border underworld when he follows a trail of blood to the last of the infamous Mexican drug lords, Bucho, for an action-packed, bullet-riddled showdown.
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A Haunting in Venice
2023 · Directed by Kenneth Branagh · 104 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: mysterious · Also thriller and crime
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo.
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The Quick and the Dead
1995 · Directed by Sam Raimi · 107 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also drama and thriller
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
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Crimes of Passion
1984 · Directed by Ken Russell · 107 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute · Also crime and drama
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…