
10 Best Movies Like Chinatown
If you loved Chinatown, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Cape Fear
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinatown for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public d...

Strange Days
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinatown for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he sta...

Gangster Squad
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinatown for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has ...

Just Cause
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinatown for fans of Drama & Mystery & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child....

Butterfly on a Wheel
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinatown for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point....

52 Pick-Up
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chinatown for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape...