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Movies like Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
10 films to watch after Once Upon a Time in America, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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1Carlito's Way (1993)
Fit 79%Shares Crime and Drama with Once Upon a Time in America.
Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.
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GoodFellas (1990)
Fit 76%Shares Drama and Crime with Once Upon a Time in America.
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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3Casino (1995)
Fit 76%Shares Crime and Drama with Once Upon a Time in America.
In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
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4A Bronx Tale (1993)
Fit 71%Shares Drama and Crime with Once Upon a Time in America.
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.
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525th Hour (2002)
Fit 69%Shares Crime and Drama with Once Upon a Time in America.
On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.
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6American Gangster (2007)
Fit 69%Shares Drama and Crime with Once Upon a Time in America.
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
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The Godfather Part II (1974)
Fit 68%Shares Drama and Crime with Once Upon a Time in America.
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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8The Funeral (1996)
Fit 57%Shares Crime and Drama with Once Upon a Time in America.
After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.
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9Brooklyn's Finest (2010)
Fit 51%Shares Crime and Drama with Once Upon a Time in America.
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
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10A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Fit 47%Shares Crime and Drama with Once Upon a Time in America.
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
