Movies like By Any Means (2026)

Name: By Any Means
Released: 2026

9 films to watch after By Any Means, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

In 1960s Mississippi, a young Black FBI agent is forced to partner with a notorious mafia hitman to investigate a wave of brutal civil rights murders.

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Mississippi Burning (1988)

Fit 78%

Shares Drama and Crime with By Any Means.

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
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Donnie Brasco (1997)

Fit 68%

Shares Crime and Drama with By Any Means.

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
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Son of the South (2021)

Fit 58%

Shares History and Drama with By Any Means.

In civil rights era Montgomery, Alabama, Klansman's grandson Bob Zellner must choose which side of history to be on during the Movement. Defying his family and white Southern norms, he fought against social injustice, repression and violence to change the world around him
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The Godfather (1972)

Fit 57%

Shares Drama and Crime with By Any Means.

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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Capote (2005)

Fit 54%

Shares Crime and Drama with By Any Means.

A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
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Free State of Jones (2016)

Fit 53%

Shares Drama and History with By Any Means.

In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.
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The Godfather Part II (1974)

Fit 49%

Shares Drama and Crime with By Any Means.

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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Driven (2019)

Fit 48%

Shares History and Crime with By Any Means.

FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
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The Order (2024)

Fit 41%

Shares Crime and Drama with By Any Means.

A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk into a white supremacist plot to overthrow the federal government.