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Movies Like Thriller: A Cruel Picture

If you liked Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973), a action and thriller movie directed by Bo Arne Vibenius, 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. 1Savaged

    Savaged (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also action and drama

    After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.

  2. 2Foxy Brown

    Foxy Brown (1974)

    ★ 6.3/10Also action and crime

    A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

  3. 3I Spit on Your Grave 2

    I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and horror

    Broke, and in desperate need to update her portfolio, New York City model Katie calls a number from a tear-off flyer offering free photos. But this innocent attempt quickly turns into an unthinkable kidnapping…

  4. 4I Spit on Your Grave

    I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller and crime

    A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.

  5. 5Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair

    Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011)

    ★ 8.1/10Also action and crime

    A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even…

  6. 6Crimes of Passion

    Crimes of Passion (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…

  7. 7The Last House on the Left

    The Last House on the Left (2009)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and thriller

    When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no…

  8. 8The Protector

    The Protector (1985)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and crime

    Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is…

  9. 9The Substitute

    The Substitute (1996)

    ★ 7/10Also action and crime

    When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon…

  10. 10Strange Darling

    Strange Darling (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and thriller

    Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

  11. 11Vice Squad

    Vice Squad (1982)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and thriller

    An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

  12. 12Frank and Penelope

    Frank and Penelope (2022)

    ★ 7.3/10Also thriller and horror

    A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is…

  13. 13The Outrage

    The Outrage (1964)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and crime

    At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector -- discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the murder of a man and the rape of his wife. In their…

  14. 14Cleveland Abduction

    Cleveland Abduction (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama

    A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.

  15. 15God Is a Bullet

    God Is a Bullet (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and action

    Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the…

  16. 16The Rookie

    The Rookie (1990)

    ★ 5.9/10Also action and crime

    Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help…

  17. 17King Cobra

    King Cobra (2016)

    ★ 5.8/10Also crime and drama

    It’s 2006, YouTube is in its infancy, and internet porn is still behind a paywall. Taking the stage name Brent Corrigan, a fresh-faced, wannabe adult video performer is molded into a star by Stephen, a closeted gay…

  18. 18Ninja III: The Domination

    Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and horror

    An aerobics instructor becomes a ruthless assassin after being possessed by a slain ninja's spirit, leading to a showdown with a martial arts expert.

  19. 19Coffy

    Coffy (1973)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller

    After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her…

  20. 20Grindhouse

    Grindhouse (2007)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller and action

    Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…

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