Movies like Canal Street (2019)
The best movies like Canal Street (2019) are Juror #2 (2024), The Whole Truth (2016) and Runaway Jury (2003). If Canal Street hooked you with its drama and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedJust Mercy (2019)7.8/10 from 2,574 votes
- NewestTyler Perry's Duplicity (2025)Released 2025
Juror #2 (2024)
While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Whole Truth (2016)
A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRunaway Jury (2003)
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Father's Secret (2016)
Carrie Evans, a beautiful young attorney with aspirations to become partner like her fiancee Steven Riggs, learns some disturbing facts about her family and her boss Caswell Foxx as she researches a big case. She becomes so entrenched in the case that it causes her to risk her career, freedom and her relationships.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
A Time to Kill (1996)
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Collini Case (2019)
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMisconduct (2016)
An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisJust Mercy (2019)
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhen the Bough Breaks (2016)
A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFoster Boy (2019)
A lawyer finds himself at the center of a trial in which a for-profit foster care agency puts a known sex offender into the same foster home as his young client Jamal, which leads to catastrophic results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Mick spends most of his time defending petty crooks and other bottom-feeders, so it comes as quite a surprise when he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy who is accused of attempted murder. However, what Mick initially thinks is an open-and-shut case with a big monetary reward develops into something more sinister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDark Waters (2019)
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Star Chamber (1983)
As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeadline (2012)
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an idealistic young blueblood bent on discovering the truth. Harper undertakes the investigation despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces, a break-up with his fiancée, and his father's cancer diagnosis.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Reversible Errors (2004)
A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Mea Culpa (2024)
A criminal defense attorney must choose between family, duty and her own dangerous desires when she takes on the case of an artist accused of murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTyler Perry's Duplicity (2025)
High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned private investigator – Marley’s search for what really happened leads her down a treacherous maze of deception and betrayal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAn Innocent Man (1989)
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Fall from Grace (2020)
When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDetroit (2017)
A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bad Guardian (2024)
A woman tries to save her father from a corrupt and greedy court-appointed guardian.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Brian Banks (2019)
An All-American football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is falsely accused of rape and sent to prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLuce (2019)
A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSacrifice (2020)
A entertainment lawyer navigates the nefarious lives of her rich and famous clients.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Monster (2021)
The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Drowning (2016)
A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeath Saved My Life (2021)
On the surface it seems Jade has it all, including a successful marketing career, a heart surgeon husband who is admired and respected in the community, and a young daughter they both dote on. However, behind closed doors, her life is far from perfect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
The Devil You Know (2022)
Once-incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving family. Upon discovering that one of his brothers may have been involved in a horrific crime, Marcus grapples with the limits of brotherhood and loyalty. He and his family, increasingly weary of the justice system’s failings, end up in the crosshairs of a seasoned but jaded detective.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain (2021)
Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Truth About Emanuel (2013)
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Canal Street?
The closest matches to Canal Street are Juror #2 (2024), The Whole Truth (2016) and Runaway Jury (2003). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Canal Street?
People who watched Canal Street most often go on to Juror #2 (2024), The Whole Truth (2016) and Runaway Jury (2003).
What is the highest-rated movie like Canal Street?
Just Mercy (2019), rated 7.8/10 by 2,574 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Canal Street?
Tyler Perry's Duplicity (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Canal Street?
Yes: Juror #2 (2024), The Whole Truth (2016) and Runaway Jury (2003).
How are movies similar to Canal Street chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Canal Street, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.