Movies like How I Became a Gangster (2019)
The best movies like How I Became a Gangster (2019) are Pigs 3 (2020), How I Fell in Love with a Gangster (2022) and Furioza (2021). If How I Became a Gangster hooked you with its crime and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Godfather (1972)8.7/10 from 23,971 votes
- NewestInside Furioza (2025)Released 2025
Pigs 3 (2020)
Having spent years in prison, Franz Maurer is released and goes out into a new Poland, where nothing is as he remembered it to be. Who and what is waiting for the man who, for the last 25 years... hasn’t been doing anything? How will he find himself in a world where old principles and loyalty have ceased to exist? We will get to know that when fate reunites Franz and “Nowy”. Their meeting will change everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow I Fell in Love with a Gangster (2022)
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFurioza (2021)
A policewoman makes her ex-boyfriend an offer he can't refuse: either he infiltrates and informs on a gang of hooligans, or his brother goes to jail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoys Don't Cry (2000)
A young aspiring violinist unwittingly becomes involved with a criminal gang.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInside Furioza (2025)
In the wake of murder, new Furioza leader Golden claims the reins of his violent and formidable hooligan gang and takes on a new focus across borders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLesson Plan (2022)
After a teacher dies, his best friend — a former cop — takes a job at the school where he worked to confront the gang he thinks was responsible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Pigs (1992)
In post-communist Poland, former secret police agent Franz Maurer works as a regular cop pursuing a major drug ring. As he and his old comrades lose their privileges and face public scorn in the new reality, Franz realizes that some of his former colleagues are now on the opposite side of the law.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBad Boy (2020)
The rise and fall of a soccer club owner, discovering the harsh reality of the sport, often connected with crime and fraud.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisKiller (1997)
An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs a "killer" for a few more jobs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDiablo: The Utimate Race (2019)
Kuba's sister falls seriously ill. In order to gather the required money for treatment he starts taking part in illegal car races.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisGangstas (2025)
On the streets of Antwerp, Badia, Junes and Volt are trying to tear themselves away from their past, but the underworld is inexorably pulling them back in. Adamo has worked his way up to become one of the most influential figures in the Antwerp drug trade. He becomes ever more entangled in a web of power and danger. His friends have to make a choice: stay loyal to Adamo or choose safety.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
The Godfather (1972)
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, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisGoodFellas (1990)
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Irishman (2019)
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPitbull (2005)
Police officers from the Warsaw Homicide Department are trying to arrest a dangerous Armenian criminal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEastern Promises (2007)
A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Getaway King (2021)
Comedy about Zdzisław Najmrodzki, most famous polish criminal in the times of Polish People Republic, named "the getaway king", known for stealing cars and escaping prison many times, but never hurting anybody.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLayer Cake (2004)
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPitbull: Public Orders (2016)
Policemen from two precincts are joining forces to fight the Mokotowska Group.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrime Novel (2005)
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisScarface (1983)
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTwo Rabbits (2012)
Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Edgar responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Edgar concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Edgar fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLegend (2015)
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWomen of Mafia (2018)
A maligned police officer receives one last chance to save her career when she must break up a crime syndicate by masquerading as one of their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisWeekend (2011)
Two gangsters, fighting for influence in the city, decide to get suitcases filled with money and drugs. Meanwhile, another criminal group has the same purpose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Bartkowiak (2021)
After his brother dies in a car crash, a disgraced MMA fighter takes over the family nightclub — and soon learns his sibling's death wasn’t an accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Protector (1985)
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisAl Capone (1959)
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSwitchblade Sisters (1975)
The leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like How I Became a Gangster?
The closest matches to How I Became a Gangster are Pigs 3 (2020), How I Fell in Love with a Gangster (2022) and Furioza (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after How I Became a Gangster?
People who watched How I Became a Gangster most often go on to Pigs 3 (2020), How I Fell in Love with a Gangster (2022) and Furioza (2021).
What is the highest-rated movie like How I Became a Gangster?
The Godfather (1972), rated 8.7/10 by 23,971 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like How I Became a Gangster?
Inside Furioza (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to How I Became a Gangster chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside How I Became a Gangster, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.