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2019 · Movie · R · your starting pointIf The Irishman is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like The Irishman, ranked
1. GoodFellas (1990)
Scorsese's exploration of how organized crime corrodes personal relationships through decades of accumulated moral compromise finds its parallel in this earlier masterwork about a crew member's rise and inevitable reckoning.
2. Donnie Brasco (1997)
Scorsese's meditation on loyalty's corrosive weight finds its mirror in this intimate portrait of an undercover agent torn between two families, where personal betrayal becomes the true cost of organized crime.
3. Gangsters Incorporated (2015)
Scorsese's exploration of loyalty within criminal hierarchies finds its echo here, as both films trace how personal relationships become entangled with mob obligations until betrayal becomes inevitable.
4. The Devil's Own (1997)
De Niro plays a man straddling two worlds of loyalty and violence, forced to reckon with how a friendship built on deception corrodes both his conscience and his identity.
5. Road to Perdition (2002)
A meditation on violence's corrosive weight across decades, Road to Perdition shares Scorsese's unflinching examination of how loyalty to criminal enterprises destroys the men who serve them and everyone they love.
6. The Westies (2026)
This chronicle of Irish-American organized crime in 1980s New York captures the same meticulous attention to internal mob politics and aging criminals confronting their violent legacies as rival factions collide over territory and profit.
7. Gangs of New York (2002)
Martin Scorsese examines how men rationalize decades of violence and moral compromise through intimate, lengthy character studies that collapse the distance between historical spectacle and personal tragedy.
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