Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 11, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Widow from Chicago

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

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for The Widow from Chicago.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Inside Man

Inside Man

2023★ 5.9

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

Based on true events. A disgraced police detective seeking redemption goes undercover to expose a violent crime syndicate. But as he sinks deeper into the mob, the price for absolu...

#2
Blue Story

Blue Story

2019★ 7.3

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

Blue Story is a tragic tale of a friendship between Timmy and Marco, two young boys from opposing postcodes. Timmy, a shy, smart, naive and timid young boy from Deptford, goes to s...

#3
City Streets

City Streets

1931★ 6.3

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

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging....

#4
State Property

State Property

2002★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Widow from Chicago for fans of Crime & Drama. 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....

#5
Al Capone

Al Capone

1959★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Widow from Chicago for fans of Crime & Drama. 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...

#6
Empire

Empire

2002★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Widow from Chicago for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this wil...

Advertisement