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10 Best Movies Like Straight Up

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

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#1
Another Day in Paradise

Another Day in Paradise

1998★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straight Up for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder....

#2
Blow

Blow

2001★ 7.4

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

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that G...

#3
White Boy Rick

White Boy Rick

2018★ 6.4

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

The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s, and was ultimately arrested for drug trafficking and sentenced to li...

#4
The Glass Key

The Glass Key

1942★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straight Up for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign....

#5
The Baker

The Baker

2023★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straight Up for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never k...

#6
Blood Ties

Blood Ties

2013★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straight Up for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s....

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