Movies Like Serpent's Path
If you liked Serpent's Path (1998), a crime and thriller movie directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Kids Return (1996)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeShinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world…
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Crows Zero (2007)
★ 7.1/10Also crimeThe students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself do it as he reminds him of his youth.
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Tokyo Drifter (1966)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller and crimeAfter yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable…
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Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
★ 6.6/10Also crimeA harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
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Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser (2009)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and thrillerA new member from the Black Organization that shrunk Shinichi's body manages to find out about Shinichi's transformation into Conan. This discovery starts to put those around him in danger as Gin and the other Black…
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The Woman in the Window (1944)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and thrillerA seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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The Crimes That Bind (2018)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and crimeMichiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of the apartment and he goes missing. Detectives including Yuhei…
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Character (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller and crimeA kind man aspires to become a manga writer, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a…
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also crimeWhen a priceless crown is stolen during a benefit gala held by the Lawrenceton library, Aurora and the Real Murders Club must investigate who would kill to get their hands on it.
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The Castle of Sand (1974)
★ 7.3/10Also crimeTwo detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also crimeAurora's high school reunion turns deadly when a body is found in the hotel pool. Aurora and her Real Murders Club help investigate which classmate was most likely to kill.
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Marlowe (1969)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeMysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are…
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inheritance to Die For (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also crimeA matriarch is poisoned during a family wedding reception and Aurora Teagarden vows to get to the bottom of the crime, especially when her mother, a friend of the dead woman, stands to inherit the bulk of the massive…
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con A Con (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also crimeWhen Aida Teagarden's real estate client is found murdered, her sleuthing daughter Aurora sets out with her fiancé Nick and the Real Murders Club to solve the murder.
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Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeConan tries to track down Kaito Kid, who supposedly steals a replica of one of Van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings during an auction.
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Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also thrillerAfter his capture for attempted assassination of the Raikage, leader of Kumogakure, as well as killing Jōnin from Kirigakure and Iwagakure, Naruto is imprisoned in Hōzukijou: A criminal containment facility known as…
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Detective Conan: The Time Bombed Skyscraper (1997)
★ 7.4/10Also crimeOnce brilliant teenage detective Shinichi Kudo was given a poison that reverted him to a 4-year-old. He's adopted the pseudonym Conan Edogawa so no one (save for an eccentric inventor) will know. Now he's got to solve…
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Detective Conan: Captured in Her Eyes (2000)
★ 7.4/10Also crimePolice officers around Tokyo are being murdered by an unknown assailant. When Ran witnesses an attempt on the life of one of her friends in the police, she loses her memory. Now, Conan and Inspector Megure must find…
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Creepy (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeAfter having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal…
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The Pelican Brief (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also thrillerA law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.