MOVIEPAD
Search icon

Movies Like Taking On Skin

If you liked Taking On Skin, a movie, 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.

  1. 1They Drive by Night

    They Drive by Night (1940)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success…

  2. 2Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

  3. 3Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  4. 4The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10

    After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

  5. 5The Banana Splits Movie

    The Banana Splits Movie (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A boy named Harley and his family attend a taping of The Banana Splits TV show, which is supposed to be a fun-filled birthday for young Harley and business as usual for Rebecca, the producer of the series. But things…

  6. 6The Brothers Rico

    The Brothers Rico (1957)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who…

  7. 7Skincare

    Skincare (2024)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skin care line. However, she soon faces a new challenge when a rival opens a boutique directly across from her…

  8. 8Riot in Cell Block 11

    Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

  9. 9Thin Ice

    Thin Ice (2012)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.

  10. 10They Live by Night

    They Live by Night (1949)

    ★ 6.8/10

    An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

  11. 11Night and the City

    Night and the City (1950)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

  12. 12The Chamber

    The Chamber (1996)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.

  13. 13Caught

    Caught (1949)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life…

  14. 14Ruthless People

    Ruthless People (1986)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the…

  15. 15Life Is Sweet

    Life Is Sweet (1991)

    ★ 7/10

    Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is…

  16. 16The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

  17. 17Fifty Shades of Grey

    Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10

    When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic…

  18. 18Winged Creatures

    Winged Creatures (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an…

  19. 19Steel Magnolias

    Steel Magnolias (1989)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.

  20. 20Real Women Have Curves

    Real Women Have Curves (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned…

← Back to Taking On Skin