Movies like Motor City (2026)

Name: Motor City
Released: 2026

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

In 1970s Detroit, John Miller falls for a local gangster's girl and lands in prison for a crime he didn't commit. With his life ruined, Miller plots revenge against the man who took his girl away.

1

Run All Night (2015)

Fit 65%

Shares Action, Crime and Thriller with Motor City.

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.
2

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

Fit 63%

Shares Action and Crime with Motor City.

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
3

The Untouchables (1987)

Fit 63%

Shares Crime and Thriller with Motor City.

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
4

Code of Silence (1985)

Fit 62%

Shares Action, Crime and Thriller with Motor City.

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
5

A History of Violence (2005)

Fit 61%

Shares Thriller and Crime with Motor City.

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
6

The Godfather (1972)

Fit 61%

Shares Crime with Motor City.

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.
7

The Black Book (2023)

Fit 56%

Shares Action and Thriller with Motor City.

After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
8

The Godfather Part II (1974)

Fit 53%

Shares Crime with Motor City.

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.
9

48 Hrs. (1982)

Fit 50%

Shares Crime and Action with Motor City.

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
10

Taxi Driver (1976)

Fit 48%

Shares Crime with Motor City.

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.