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10 Best Movies Like While the City Sleeps

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

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#1
Belly

Belly

1998★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the City Sleeps for fans of Drama & 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...

#2
Cry of the City

Cry of the City

1948★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the City Sleeps for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another cri...

#3
Welcome to the Punch

Welcome to the Punch

2013★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the City Sleeps for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after....

#4
The Detective

The Detective

1968★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the City Sleeps for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man....

#5
Al Capone

Al Capone

1959★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the City Sleeps for fans of Drama & Crime. 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
The Seven-Ups

The Seven-Ups

1973★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the City Sleeps for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money....

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