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10 Best Movies Like Bad Lieutenant

If you loved Bad Lieutenant, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Night Falls on Manhattan

Night Falls on Manhattan

1997★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Lieutenant for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner....

#2
Brooklyn's Finest

Brooklyn's Finest

2010★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Lieutenant for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police ...

#3
Gone Baby Gone

Gone Baby Gone

2007★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Lieutenant for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Pa...

#4
Cop Land

Cop Land

1997★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Lieutenant for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something u...

#5
Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion

1984★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Lieutenant for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopa...

#6
American Gangster

American Gangster

2007★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Lieutenant for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from...

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