Movies like DC (2026)

10 films to watch after DC, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

Rebel Devadas joins forces with Chandra in a dangerous world where passion and peril collide. Their turbulent alliance demands bloodshed and tests loyalties as survival becomes the ultimate stake in their fight.

1

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

Fit 67%

Shares Romance and Drama with DC.

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
2

Brooklyn Rules (2007)

Fit 65%

Shares Drama and Action with DC.

Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
3

Heaven (2002)

Fit 64%

Shares Drama and Romance with DC.

A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.
4

Convict (2014)

Fit 63%

Shares Action and Drama with DC.

Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.
5

We Die Young (2019)

Fit 62%

Shares Drama and Action with DC.

Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises.
6

Vada Chennai (2018)

Fit 61%

Shares Action and Drama with DC.

Anbu, a young carrom player in North Chennai becomes inadvertently involved in an ongoing conflict between two local gangsters.
7

The Substitute (1996)

Fit 59%

Shares Action and Drama with DC.

When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.
8

Pusher 3 (2005)

Fit 49%

Shares Action with DC.

Milo is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday, and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10,000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan.
9

Asylum (2005)

Fit 44%

Shares Drama and Romance with DC.

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
10

Something Wild (1986)

Fit 40%

Shares Romance with DC.

A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.