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10 Best Movies Like South Central

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

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#1
New Jack City

New Jack City

1991★ 6.6

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

A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a...

#2
Searching for Bobby Fischer

Searching for Bobby Fischer

1993★ 7.1

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

A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer....

#3
Suicide Kings

Suicide Kings

1997★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to South Central for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo plays mind games, however, his cap...

#4
In Too Deep

In Too Deep

1999★ 6.4

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

Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop J...

#5
South Pacific

South Pacific

1958★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to South Central for fans of Music. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she ju...

#6
New Jersey Drive

New Jersey Drive

1995★ 6.2

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

Jason and Midget are two young, black teenagers living in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial car theft capital of the world. Their favourite pastime is that of everybody in their n...