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10 Best Movies Like How I Got There

If you loved How I Got There, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The International

The International

2009★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Got There for fans of Action & Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabiliz...

#2
Black Site

Black Site

2022★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Got There for fans of Action & Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysteri...

#3
Night Train

Night Train

2023★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Got There for fans of Action & Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Mother Holly McCord is driven to extremes to save the life of her young son. Even if it means hauling black market drugs in her souped-up truck, with the Feds in hot pursuit. With ...

#4
Shade

Shade

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Got There for fans of Action & Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-kno...

#5
The System

The System

2022★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Got There for fans of Action & Thriller & Crime. 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...

#6
The Killer

The Killer

2024★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How I Got There for fans of Action & Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a det...

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