Movies like Silk Road (2017)
The best movies like Silk Road (2017) are Wolf (2013), App (2013) and Crypto Boy (2023). If Silk Road hooked you with its thriller and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Ardennes (2015)6.6/10 from 209 votes
- NewestLifeHack (2026)Released 2026
Wolf (2013)
A promising kickboxer struggles to resist the temptations of a life of crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisApp (2013)
A young psychology student is drawn into the dark and fearful world of a diabolic and mysterious App that starts to terrorize her, distributing compromising photographs, videos and text messages about herself and delves deeper and deeper into her personal life, flawlessly exposing all of her deepest secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisCrypto Boy (2023)
Following a dispute with his father, a young man falls prey to cryptocurrency's allure and an entrepreneur's audacious promises of financial freedom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSilk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web (2017)
Documentary looking at the black market website known as the Silk Road, which emerged on the darknet in 2011. This 'Amazon of illegal drugs' was the brainchild of a mysterious, libertarian intellectual operating under the avatar The Dread Pirate Roberts. Promising its users complete anonymity and total freedom from government regulation or scrutiny, Silk Road became a million-dollar digital drugs cartel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Silk Road (2021)
Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells drugs, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to bring him down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLoft (2010)
Five best friends, all married, decide to share a loft apartment. In this loft they meet their mistresses and conquests. Everything seems perfect, until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The group of friends begin to suspect each other and it soon becomes clear that they know far less about each other than they had initially thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHardcore Never Dies (2023)
17-year-old Michael dreams of a future as a pianist, but his music education is not going smoothly. In his search for inspiration, he receives help from an unexpected source: his brother Danny introduces him to the emerging Rotterdam “gabber” music scene. Michael is drawn into a world of hard beats, brotherhood and drugs. When Danny's drug business reaches international proportions, the brothers must fight for their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZillion (2022)
It's 1997. Frank Verstraeten, a computer genius with a nose for business, a fascination for nightlife and an unhealthy urge to prove himself, only wants one thing: his own disco that not only outperforms the competition but simply humiliates it. The futuristic mega discotheque Zillion is a fact and Frank turns from computer dealer to the pivotal figure of the Antwerp nightlife. He parades with the most beautiful women in Belgium and forges an alliance with Dennis Black Magic, the porn king who provides the spicy extras. Unfortunately, beautiful songs don't last long either.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHacker (2016)
Alex, an immigrant from Ukraine comes to Canada and becomes involved with an online criminal organization called Darkweb. What starts off as a way to help his parents financially, soon becomes a personal vendetta against the entire banking system, when his mother is fired from her job at the bank
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClean Hands (2015)
Sylvia has turned a blind eye for too long to husband Eddie's flourishing drug business. When his dealing takes a (deadly) turn for the worse, however, her need to protect the lives and futures of her young children compel her to flee. But Eddie will stop at nothing to keep his wife inside the ‘family'.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
The Ardennes (2015)
A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth however possible, but is witnessing how the highly strung Kenneth tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGodforsaken! (2003)
Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisiHostage (2025)
When a gunman enters an Apple Store in the heart of Amsterdam, the police face a delicate challenge to resolve the standoff.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisGangsta (2018)
Antwerp, Belgium. The lives of four small-time drug dealers spin out of control when they steal a shipment of cocaine, triggering a full out war between an Amsterdam drug lord and a ruthless Colombian cartel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Heineken Kidnapping (2011)
On a cold November day in 1983, beer magnate Alfred Heineken and his chauffeur Ab Doderer are abducted. What follows is the most infamous kidnapping case the Netherlands have ever known.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLow Life (2022)
Benny, a small time YouTube star who catches predators online, experiences a night from hell when he lets one of them into his own home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
LifeHack (2026)
A thrill-seeking gang of teen hackers must pull off their riskiest heist yet when a woman blackmails them into targeting her crypto-billionaire father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
www.XXX.com (2003)
www.XXX.com peeks into the world of internet prostitution. A Fil-Am girl (Palermo) escapes the consequences of her State-side abortion by going back to her home country. With relatives greeting her with unwelcome arms, Joanna tries to make sense of her life and gets into the clutches of a smooth cybercafe owner (Gary Estrada) who introduces her to Web Diva.Com. She eventually becomes their big money-maker while catching a tentative affair with Spike (Carlo Maceda) -- a misguided hacker who (cheekily enough) created the Love virus in the movie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Takedown (2000)
Kevin Mitnick is quite possibly the best hacker in the world. Hunting for more and more information, seeking more and more cyber-trophies every day, he constantly looks for bigger challenges. When he breaks into the computer of a security expert and an ex-hacker, he finds one - and much more than that...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Takeover (2022)
Self-proclaimed ethical hacker Mel Bandison's life is turned upside down when she stops a data breach on a high-tech self-driving bus that also happens to shut down an international criminal network. She then becomes a target and is framed with a deepfake video that “shows” that she murders someone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDe Dominee (2004)
Amsterdam, 1970s. A wealthy grammar school student Klaas and his friend start trafficking hash and become entangled in the brutal criminal scene.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror (2022)
Anonymous and exploitative, a network of online chat rooms ran rampant with sex crimes. The hunt to take down its operators required guts and tenacity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEat the Night (2024)
Young drug dealer Pablo and his sister Appoline bond over an online game called Darknoon. Pablo falls for Night, neglecting his sister. While Appoline finishes the game, Pablo and Night become embroiled in a dangerous gang conflict.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlackhat (2015)
Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSkin (2008)
In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland. Frankie’s mother is taken to hospital in a terminal condition, causing a bigger rift between him and his father. This leads to Frankie becoming the interest of the local Nazi skinhead group.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
The Parts You Lose (2019)
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIslands (2025)
In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is unable to shake the feeling he has met her before. Tension and attraction grow, until her husband disappears, and the police suspect Tom.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLimbo (2023)
Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKiller's Kiss (1955)
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse of Strangers (1949)
Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of them take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that remains loyal.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Silk Road?
The closest matches to Silk Road are Wolf (2013), App (2013) and Crypto Boy (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Silk Road?
People who watched Silk Road most often go on to Wolf (2013), App (2013) and Crypto Boy (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like Silk Road?
The Ardennes (2015), rated 6.6/10 by 209 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Silk Road?
LifeHack (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Silk Road chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Silk Road, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.