
10 Best Movies Like Empire State
If you loved Empire State, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Frank and Penelope
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Empire State for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly...

The Corrupted
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Empire State for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam, an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime sy...

Above the Rim
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Empire State for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now empl...

The System
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Empire State for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figu...

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Empire State for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by n...

Panic
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Empire State for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for hi...