Movies Like The Listener

If you liked The Listener (2020), a thriller and drama movie directed by Petr Melnikov, 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 Needle (1989)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and thriller
Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit…
2
One Night in Bangkok (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama
A hit man named Kai flies into Bangkok, gets a gun, and orders a cab. He offers a professional female driver big money to be his all-night driver. But when she realizes Kai is committing brutal murders at each stop…
3
The Infernal Machine (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and mystery
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his…
4
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery and thriller
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled…
5
A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and drama
The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local…
6
The Tenant (1976)
★ 7.6/10Also thriller and mystery
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
7
Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
8
Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller and drama
In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the…
9
Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and thriller
A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
10
Too Late (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and mystery
Private investigator Mel Sampson is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past.
11
Tightrope (1984)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and thriller
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his…
12
Kiss the Girls (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and mystery
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to…
13
The Rookie (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller
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…
14
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
★ 7.2/10Also mystery and thriller
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to…
15
Crimes of Passion (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller
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…
16
In Darkness (2018)
★ 6/10Also thriller and mystery
A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.
17
Centaur (2023)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and thriller
Liza works at night, a taxi ride for her is a moment of much-desired peace. The driver Sasha inspires confidence, he knows the approach to the most demanding client. There are many unexpected turns in the lights of the…
18
Se7en (1995)
★ 8.4/10Also mystery and thriller
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…
19
Killer Joe (2012)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and drama
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
Coffy (1973)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama
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…