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10 Best Movies Like The Intent 2: The Come Up

If you loved The Intent 2: The Come Up, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
New Jack City

New Jack City

1991★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Intent 2: The Come Up for fans of Crime & Drama. 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...

#2
Belly

Belly

1998★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Intent 2: The Come Up for fans of Crime & Drama. 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
Deep Cover

Deep Cover

1992★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Intent 2: The Come Up 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...

#4
American Gangster

American Gangster

2007★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Intent 2: The Come Up 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...

#5
In Too Deep

In Too Deep

1999★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Intent 2: The Come Up for fans of Crime & Drama. 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...

#6
Sleepless

Sleepless

2017★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Intent 2: The Come Up for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who has a lot of enemies, is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist ...

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