Movies like Monkey Man
If Monkey Man's mix of police brutality, corruption and social injustice stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Monkey Man's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Léon: The Professional
1994 · Directed by Luc Besson · 111 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: police brutality, corruption · Also crime and action
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 Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: police brutality, corruption
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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Havoc
2025 · Directed by Gareth Evans · 107 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: night club · Also action and crime · From the same decade (2020s)
When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.