Movies Like The Big Combo
If you liked The Big Combo (1955), a drama and crime movie directed by Joseph H. Lewis, 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.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and dramaA newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district…
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No Mercy (1986)
★ 5.8/10Also crime and dramaAn unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
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The Dead Pool (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and dramaDirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry learns that the murders are part of a sick…
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In Too Deep (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and crimeDrug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an…
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The Big Heat (1953)
★ 7.7/10Also crimeAfter the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
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McQ (1974)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and dramaPolice Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
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Havoc (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and dramaWhen a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.
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Heat (1995)
★ 7.9/10Also crime and dramaObsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the…
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The Outfit (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and dramaLeonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes…
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High Sierra (1941)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and dramaGiven a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
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Detective Story (1951)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and dramaTells 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…
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Parker (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeA thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of…
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
★ 7.8/10Also crimeThree detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
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Out of the Past (1947)
★ 7.7/10Also crimeThe peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
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The Big Easy (1986)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and crimeRemy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow members of the police force may be involved.
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Panic (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and dramaAlex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful…
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The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
★ 7/10Also drama and crimeA motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
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Sexy Beast (2001)
★ 7/10Also crime and dramaEx-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading…
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The Mob (1951)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeAn undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.
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Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and dramaNewspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.