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Movies that feel likeThe Departed (2006)

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

If you loved The Departed, the closest films we have are GoodFellas (1990), Infernal Affairs (2002) and The Town (2010). All three share The Departed's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Suburra (2015).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martin Scorsesecontemplativetensegritty
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GoodFellas
1990 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%★ 8.7drama · crime

Scorsese's underworld pull — charm, paranoia and the bill coming due

The difference: A true story's long arc — decades of rise and rot, no moles

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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Infernal Affairs
2002 · dir. Alan Mak Siu-Fai
🍅 94%★ 8drama · thriller · crimeMax

One thread runs through both: undercover

Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.

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The Town
2010 · dir. Ben Affleck
🍅 92%★ 7.5crime · drama · thrillerMax

Boston crime with loyalty and neighborhood pressing in on everyone

The difference: A straighter heist thriller with a romance at its center, less paranoia

A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold the manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.

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Miller's Crossing
1990 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 93%★ 7.7drama · thriller · crime

Loyalty games inside an Irish mob where every angle is played

The difference: Mannered Coen cool — chess moves over adrenaline

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

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Memories of Murder
2003 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
★ 8.1crime · drama · thriller

Police work that grinds down the men doing it until nothing is clean

The difference: Slower and sadder, driven by failure rather than tightening suspense

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

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Sleepers
1996 · dir. Barry Levinson
🍅 76%★ 7.5crime · drama · thriller

Buried history dictating what grown men are willing to do to each other

The difference: Courtroom revenge with a sentimental streak, far less coiled

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.

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Suburra
2015 · dir. Stefano Sollima
🍅 90%★ 7.4crime · drama · thriller

Cops, criminals and politicians tangled in one corrupt web

The difference: Italian sprawl — systemic rot, no undercover tightrope

A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.

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Collateral
2004 · dir. Michael Mann
🍅 86%★ 7.5drama · crime · thrillerPrime VideoParamount+

A long night with an ordinary man trapped beside a professional killer

The difference: Cool and contained: one night, not a whole institution rotting

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.

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Layer Cake
2004 · dir. Matthew Vaughn
🍅 81%★ 7.2drama · thriller · crime

A smart operator discovering the ladder above him is rigged

The difference: Sleek British caper — clever, but the dread stays light

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

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We Own the Night
2007 · dir. James Gray
🍅 57%★ 6.8drama · crime · thriller

A family split across the police-criminal line, forced to choose

The difference: Somber and slow-burning — melancholy over momentum

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

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Casino
1995 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 79%★ 8.2crime · dramaPrime Video

Two friends on opposite tracks of the same criminal machine

The difference: Vegas epic pacing — narration and glitz, little tension

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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Irreversible
2002 · dir. Gaspar Noé
🍅 60%★ 7.3drama · thriller · crime

Crime and vengeance stripped of any comfort or cool

The difference: An assaultive art film — infamously brutal, told backwards

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

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