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.

Another Day in Paradise
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....

Blow
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...

White Boy Rick
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...

The Glass Key
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....

The Baker
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...

Blood Ties
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....