10 Best Movies Like American Me
If you loved American Me, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Bound by Honor
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Me for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three ar...
Colors
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Me for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members ...
Boyz n the Hood
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Me for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre to be a decent person. Tre's ...
Menace II Society
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Me for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life....
Belly
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Me for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in...
Bad Boys
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Me for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick ...