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10 Best Movies Like The Vicious Years

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

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#1
Winged Creatures

Winged Creatures

2009★ 5.9

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

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts h...

#2
Panic

Panic

2000★ 6.2

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

Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for hi...

#3
The Parts You Lose

The Parts You Lose

2019★ 6.7

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

An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm....

#4
American Murderer

American Murderer

2022★ 5.9

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

The True story of how charismatic con man Jason Derek Brown bankrolls his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown’s trail: Lance Leising, a dogged FBI special age...

#5
Mob Town

Mob Town

2019★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the...

#6
Above the Rim

Above the Rim

1994★ 7.1

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

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now empl...

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