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Movies Like The Professional

If you liked The Professional (1973), a movie directed by David Cunliffe, 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. 1Transfusion

    Transfusion (2023)

    ★ 6/10

    Ryan Logan, a former Special Forces operative, is battling to cope with life after the loss of his wife. He is thrusted into the criminal underworld to keep his only son from being taken from him.

  2. 2Traders

    Traders (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10

    What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow grinding financial ruin and misery, and all done according to a strict code by consenting adults. This is Trading.

  3. 3The Howling

    The Howling (1981)

    ★ 6.6/10

    After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

  4. 4Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10

    When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

  5. 5Safe Haven

    Safe Haven (2013)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

  6. 6Psycho

    Psycho (1960)

    ★ 8.4/10

    When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

  7. 7The Virtuoso

    The Virtuoso (2021)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Danger, deception and murder descend upon a sleepy town when a professional assassin accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic boss.

  8. 8Assassin Club

    Assassin Club (2023)

    ★ 6/10

    In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each…

  9. 9Blackwater Lane

    Blackwater Lane (2024)

    ★ 6/10

    An American school teacher in England drives past an abandoned car late one night, unaware that the driver was the victim of a murder. As she comes to terms with the realization, seemingly supernatural events start to…

  10. 10Sexy Beast

    Sexy Beast (2001)

    ★ 7/10

    Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading…

  11. 11Hider in the House

    Hider in the House (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

  12. 12Chief of Station

    Chief of Station (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10

    After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…

  13. 13Wardriver

    Wardriver (2026)

    ★ 7.5/10

    He’s a Wardriver: a hacker who steals from banks, not people—until he’s noticed. Now the money turns violent, and the woman caught in it could save him or kill them both.

  14. 14Hobo with a Shotgun

    Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt…

  15. 15Seeking Justice

    Seeking Justice (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10

    After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.

  16. 16Too Late for Tears

    Too Late for Tears (1949)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Through 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.

  17. 17Dismissed

    Dismissed (2017)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.

  18. 18Conflict

    Conflict (1945)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

  19. 19Killer Joe

    Killer Joe (2012)

    ★ 6.5/10

    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.

  20. 20Cult Killer

    Cult Killer (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.

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