Movies Like Amanda by Night
If you liked Amanda by Night (1981), a crime and thriller movie directed by Gary Graver, 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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Vice Squad (1982)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and thrillerAn unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
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Tightrope (1984)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and crimeWes 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…
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Payback (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and thrillerWith friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless…
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Mulholland Falls (1996)
★ 6/10Also thriller and crimeIn 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
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Bad Lieutenant (1992)
★ 7/10Also crimeWhile investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
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Crimes of Passion (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and thrillerFashion 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…
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Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and thrillerNothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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American Gigolo (1980)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeJulian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and…
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Basic Instinct (1992)
★ 7/10Also thrillerCatherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
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Too Late (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also crimePrivate investigator Mel Sampson is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past.
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Exit Wounds (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and thrillerMaverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he…
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Hounds of Love (2016)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeWhen Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple, she soon observes the dynamic between her captors and quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.
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Blue Steel (1990)
★ 5.8/10Also thrillerRookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner…
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Wonderland (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeOn the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the…
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The Rookie (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and thrillerVeteran 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…
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Cop (1988)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and thrillerAn obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
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Frank and Penelope (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and crimeA 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…
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and thrillerPrivate 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…
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
★ 6.8/10Also thrillerSomewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other…
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Kiss of the Dragon (2001)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and thrillerLiu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.