Movies Like The Animal

If you liked The Animal (2024), a crime movie directed by Edward Rice and Max Woolf, 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
The Parts You Lose (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also crime
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
2
Islands (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also crime
In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is…
3
Winged Creatures (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also crime
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…
4
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
★ 6/10Also crime
The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.
5
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
★ 5.9/10Also crime
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
6
Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also crime
Batman and Nightwing are forced to team with the Joker's sometimes-girlfriend Harley Quinn to stop a global threat brought about by Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man.
7
Perfect Sisters (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also crime
Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
8
How to Rob a Bank (2007)
★ 5.8/10Also crime
Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.
9
Indemnity (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also crime
An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.
10
Batman: Assault on Arkham (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also crime
Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker while Amanda Waller sends her newly-formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum and recover vital information stolen by the Riddler.
11
Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
★ 5.9/10Also crime
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound…
12
The Wild One (1953)
★ 6.5/10Also crime
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another…
13
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also crime
At a gathering of mystery and true crime fans, Aurora Teagarden’s nephew, Phillip, is accused of murder when an unplanned onstage blackout during the play in which he is performing ends, revealing Phillip holding the…
14
The Mechanic (1972)
★ 6.7/10Also crime
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and…
15
Murder in Three Acts (1986)
★ 6/10Also crime
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
16
The Dream Team (1989)
★ 6.1/10Also crime
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish…
17
Woman on the Run (1950)
★ 6.8/10Also crime
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he…
18
Killer's Kiss (1955)
★ 6.3/10Also crime
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The…
19
House of Strangers (1949)
★ 7/10Also crime
Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business…
20
Stillwater (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also crime
Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers…