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Movies Like The Big Meet

If you liked The Big Meet (2013), a crime and drama movie directed by Xian Elder, 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. 1The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama

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

  2. 2Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

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

  3. 3Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a…

  4. 4Shadow of the Thin Man

    Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and crime

    While attending a major horse race with their young son, Nick Jr., Nick and Nora Charles witnesse a shocking murder from the crowded grandstand. What first appears to be an isolated killing soon leads to a maze of…

  5. 5The Web

    The Web (1947)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and 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.

  6. 6Where the Money Is

    Where the Money Is (2000)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and crime

    Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing…

  7. 7Song of the Thin Man

    Song of the Thin Man (1947)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and crime

    While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on a young bandleader and his musicians, the couple steps in…

  8. 8The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

    The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and crime

    The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including…

  9. 9Glengarry Glen Ross

    Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama

    An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.

  10. 10A Kiss Before Dying

    A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and crime

    A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.

  11. 11The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window (1944)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama

    A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

  12. 12Murder She Said

    Murder She Said (1961)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy and crime

    Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

  13. 13The File on Thelma Jordon

    The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime

    Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

  14. 14LaRoy, Texas

    LaRoy, Texas (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and comedy

    Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.

  15. 15Arsenic and Old Lace

    Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

    ★ 7.6/10Also comedy and crime

    Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts…

  16. 165 Against the House

    5 Against the House (1955)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

    Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

  17. 17Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    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.

  18. 18Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and crime

    When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

  19. 19Another Thin Man

    Another Thin Man (1939)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and crime

    Nick and Nora Charles are back - and this time, they have a baby, a wealthy new client, and another murder to solve! Retired detective Nick is enjoying family life with Nora and their young son, Nick Jr., when…

  20. 20Strangers on a Train

    Strangers on a Train (1951)

    ★ 7.7/10Also crime and 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.

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