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10 Best Movies Like Young and Dangerous: The Prequel

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

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#1
Belly

Belly

1998★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young and Dangerous: The Prequel 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...

#2
Election

Election

2005★ 7.2

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

After losing an election to become chairman of the Wo Lin Shing triad, a gang leader lashes out and tries to seize the dragon-head baton, the official symbol of a chairman's author...

#3
The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy

1931★ 7.3

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

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street ...

#4
Hoodlum

Hoodlum

1997★ 6.4

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

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bump...

#5
Cass

Cass

2008★ 5.9

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

The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and resp...

#6
Siberian Education

Siberian Education

2013★ 6.8

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

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The onl...

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