Movies Like Elevator to the Gallows
If you liked Elevator to the Gallows (1958), a crime and drama movie directed by Louis Malle, 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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The Transporter (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and thrillerFormer Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in…
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The Public Eye (1992)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and dramaA crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
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The Second Wind (2007)
★ 6/10Also drama and crimeGu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's…
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Flic Story (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and thrillerThe film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy…
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The Big Combo (1955)
★ 7/10Also drama and crimePolice Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
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Polisse (2011)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and crimeParis, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a…
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The Killing (1956)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and thrillerCareer criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George…
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Point Blank (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and crimeSamuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris…
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The Last Run (1971)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and thrillerA former mob getaway driver from Chicago has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job - to drive a dangerous crook and his girlfriend to France.
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Caché (2005)
★ 7/10Also drama and thrillerAs the host of a literary TV show, Georges begins receiving anonymously filmed videos of his family alongside cryptic, disturbing drawings, but as the tapes become increasingly intimate, they reveal a stalker who has…
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Femme Fatale (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and thrillerA $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret…
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The Night Caller (1975)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller and crimeA serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones…
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The Air I Breathe (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerA gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race against time to rescue his beloved... Four interconnected stories reveal life unfolding…
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Too Late for Tears (1949)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and thrillerThrough a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
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Crank: High Voltage (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and crimeChelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
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Dark City (1950)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thrillerWar hero Danny Haley fleeces out-of-town dupes in a rigged poker game. He and his pals see Arthur Winant as an easy mark, but they've reckoned without Winant's homicidal brother, who wants revenge after Arthur commits…
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Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and thrillerGentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his…
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The Killer (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and thrillerAfter a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
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Un Flic (1972)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and thrillerA Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.
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Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and thrillerLiu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.