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10 Best Movies Like Léon: The Professional

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

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#1
Clean

Clean

2022★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Léon: The Professional for fans of Crime & Drama & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Tormented by a past life, garbage man Clean attempts a life of quiet redemption. But when his good intentions mark him a target of a local crime boss, Clean is forced to reconcile ...

#2
American Gangster

American Gangster

2007★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Léon: The Professional for fans of Crime & Drama. 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
The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes

1971★ 6.1

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

Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't k...

#4
Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America

1984★ 8.4

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

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old li...

#5
A Walk Among the Tombstones

A Walk Among the Tombstones

2014★ 6.3

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

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife....

#6
Dead Man Down

Dead Man Down

2013★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Léon: The Professional for fans of Crime & Drama & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution....

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