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Movies Like Crime of Passion

If you liked Crime of Passion (1956), a drama and crime movie directed by Gerd Oswald, 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 Killing

    The Killing (1956)

    ★ 7.6/10Also crime and thriller

    Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George…

  2. 2A Perfect Murder

    A Perfect Murder (1998)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller

    Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his…

  3. 3Butterfly on a Wheel

    Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

  4. 4Gone Girl

    Gone Girl (2014)

    ★ 7.9/10Also thriller and drama

    With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

  5. 5Manhattan Night

    Manhattan Night (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller

    Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a…

  6. 6Deep Water

    Deep Water (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and thriller

    A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

  7. 7China Moon

    China Moon (1994)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and crime

    Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After she shoots her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the body, but his partner is showing an unusual flair for finding…

  8. 8Dream Lover

    Dream Lover (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and thriller

    Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…

  9. 9Adulterers

    Adulterers (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and drama

    On a steamy New Orleans afternoon, Sam Deuprey decides to surprise his beautiful wife, Ashley, for their anniversary and comes home early. But Ashley is not alone in the bedroom. She and her lover, Damien are about to…

  10. 10Careful What You Wish For

    Careful What You Wish For (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller

    A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

  11. 11Hollywoodland

    Hollywoodland (2006)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama

    When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.

  12. 12One Hour Photo

    One Hour Photo (2002)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller

    Sy Parrish has lovingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he's part of…

  13. 13Fatale

    Fatale (2020)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and thriller

    After a wild one-night stand, successful sports agent Derrick Tyler watches his perfect life slowly disappear when he discovers the sexy and mysterious woman he risked everything for is determined police detective…

  14. 14Brooklyn's Finest

    Brooklyn's Finest (2010)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes…

  15. 15Blood Simple

    Blood Simple (1985)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama

    The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them…

  16. 16Seberg

    Seberg (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller and drama

    An ambitious young FBI agent is assigned to investigate iconic actress Jean Seberg when she becomes embroiled in the tumultuous civil rights movement in late 1960s Los Angeles.

  17. 17Addicted

    Addicted (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller

    A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

  18. 18Reptile

    Reptile (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and thriller

    Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, and by doing so dismantles the illusions in his own life.

  19. 19Detective Story

    Detective Story (1951)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's…

  20. 20Derailed

    Derailed (2005)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and thriller

    When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

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