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10 Best Movies Like Bust

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

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#1
In Too Deep

In Too Deep

1999★ 6.5

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

#2
American Gangster

American Gangster

2007★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bust 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...

#3
New Jack City

New Jack City

1991★ 6.7

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

#4
Jet Boy

Jet Boy

2001★ 6.5

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

A coming-of-age story of a reluctant 13-year-old hustler named Nathan who will do whatever it takes to feel loved....

#5
Deep Cover

Deep Cover

1992★ 6.8

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

Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell...

#6
Light Sleeper

Light Sleeper

1992★ 6.7

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

John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s profession...

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