Movies like The Weight (2026)

Name: The Weight
Released: 2026

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

When Samuel is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal prison, Warden Clancy offers him a high-stakes proposition: smuggle gold out of a remote mine with a dangerous crew of prisoners and he’ll win his freedom.

1

Black Sea (2014)

Fit 77%

Shares Drama and Thriller with The Weight.

A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
2

Contraband (2012)

Fit 72%

Shares Thriller, Drama and Crime with The Weight.

When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago—smuggling—to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
3

Paradise Highway (2022)

Fit 71%

Shares Thriller, Crime and Drama with The Weight.

A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a teenage girl.
4

The Rover (2014)

Fit 63%

Shares Crime and Drama with The Weight.

Ten years after a severe economic collapse in the western world, lawlessness reigns and life is cheap. Eric is a lone drifter, and his car is his only possession. When a gang steals it, Eric comes across the injured Rey, left behind by the car thieves. The pair form an unlikely and uneasy alliance.
5

The Untouchables (1987)

Fit 62%

Shares Crime and Thriller with The Weight.

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”.
6

Absolute Power (1997)

Fit 59%

Shares Crime and Drama with The Weight.

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.
7

Emperor of the North (1973)

Fit 55%

Shares Drama and Thriller with The Weight.

Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
8

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Fit 54%

Shares Drama and Crime with The Weight.

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.
9

Road of No Return (2009)

Fit 45%

Shares Drama and Thriller with The Weight.

Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.
10

Braven (2018)

Fit 41%

Shares Drama and Thriller with The Weight.

A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.