
Movies that feel like Serpico (1973)
If you loved Serpico, the closest films we have are The Man from Hong Kong (1975), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Black Mass (2015). All three share Serpico's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.
If Serpico hit the spot, these will too

Two things both keep coming back to: corruption and police
The difference: Sits closer to action than Serpico does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: money
The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

Common ground: a true story

The same hand behind both of them: Sidney Lumet
The difference: Missing the scale of Serpico

One thread runs through both: biography
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

The same preoccupation in both: police
The difference: None of the scale Serpico is built on

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

Gritty and contemplative in the same breath

Epic crime, and it commits to that

Both rooted in New York City

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Contemplative history in both cases
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