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10 Best Movies Like Joe

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

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#1
American Gangster

American Gangster

2007★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joe for fans of Drama & Crime. 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...

#2
Paid in Full

Paid in Full

2002★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joe for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants po...

#3
Miller's Crossing

Miller's Crossing

1990★ 7.5

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

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman....

#4
Last Man Standing

Last Man Standing

1996★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joe for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering hi...

#5
Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America

1984★ 8.4

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

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old li...

#6
Lord of War

Lord of War

2005★ 7.3

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

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and ...

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