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10 Best Movies Like Desperation Rising

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

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#1
State Property

State Property

2002★ 6.4

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

A Philadelphia gang member becomes a drug kingpin and starts a feud with vicious rivals in his quest for the American Dream....

#2
Belly

Belly

1998★ 6.2

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

Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in...

#3
Al Capone

Al Capone

1959★ 6.6

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

In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago...

#4
Absolution

Absolution

2024★ 5.9

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

An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and r...

#5
Mobsters

Mobsters

1991★ 6.2

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

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime......

#6
Juice

Juice

1992★ 7.2

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

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group...

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