Movies Like Dead in a Day

If you liked Dead in a Day (2024), a drama movie directed by Justin Royce, 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
Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
2
5 Against the House (1955)
★ 5.9/10Also drama
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
3
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
4
The Big Combo (1955)
★ 7/10Also drama
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
5
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.
6
Woman of Straw (1964)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
7
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
8
The Web (1947)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
9
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
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.
10
Little Caesar (1931)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
11
Dark City (1950)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
War 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…
12
Strangers on a Train (1951)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
13
Pushover (1954)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
14
Force of Evil (1950)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring…
15
Pitfall (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
16
Laura (1944)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
17
Eleanor the Great (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
18
Dead End (1937)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
19
Perfect Sisters (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also drama
Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
20
Dial M for Murder (1954)
★ 8/10Also drama
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.