Movies like By Any Means (2026)

Name: By Any Means
Released: 2026

10 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.

1

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Fit 71%

Shares Drama, Crime and Thriller 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.
2

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Fit 68%

Shares Crime, Drama and History with By Any Means.

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
3

Donnie Brasco (1997)

Fit 63%

Shares Crime, Drama and Thriller 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.
4

Driven (2019)

Fit 51%

Shares Thriller, History and Crime with By Any Means.

FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
5

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)

Fit 47%

Shares Crime and Drama with By Any Means.

A Black hitman who models after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
6

Free State of Jones (2016)

Fit 47%

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.
7

The Order (2024)

Fit 46%

Shares Crime, Drama and Thriller 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.
8

Above Suspicion (2019)

Fit 45%

Shares Thriller and Crime with By Any Means.

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them.
9

The Jackal (1997)

Fit 40%

Shares Crime and Thriller with By Any Means.

Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
10

The Best of Enemies (2019)

Fit 37%

Shares Drama and History with By Any Means.

Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis, a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.