Movies like Traffic: 20 to watch next
If you loved Traffic (2000) — a thriller, drama and crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Traffic most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like drug dealer, daughter and mother. 4 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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The Border 1982★ 6.0
Shares: Crime, Drama
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Year of the Dragon 1985★ 6.8
Shares: Crime, Thriller
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Training Day 2001★ 7.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Coffy 1973★ 6.6
Shares: Crime, Thriller, Drama
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel
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Scarface 1983★ 8.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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A Good Woman Is Hard to Find 2019★ 6.1
Shares: Thriller, Crime, Drama
The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Close Range 2015★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Thriller
A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Substitute 1996★ 7.0
Shares: Crime, Drama, Thriller
When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Cleveland Abduction 2015★ 7.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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New Jack City 1991★ 6.7
Shares: Thriller, Crime, Drama
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Walking Tall: Lone Justice 2007★ 5.8
Shares: Thriller, Crime, Drama
In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the agents are executed. However, Kate is only wounded, and her boyfriend Nick believes there is a traitor in the agency and takes her to his ranch to protect her life.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Shepherd: Border Patrol 2008★ 6.1
Shares: Crime, Thriller
A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Rise of the Footsoldier 2007★ 6.4
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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We Die Young 2019★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Way of the Gun 2000★ 6.4
Shares: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Until Death 2007★ 5.9
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Killer Joe 2012★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Thriller, Drama
A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.
Stream in India on Plex
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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear 2013★ 6.8
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Lionsgate Play, VI movies and tv
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The Corruptor 1999★ 6.1
Shares: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 2017★ 7.0
Shares: Crime, Thriller
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now