Movies Like Special

If you liked Special (1967), a movie directed by Kōji Seki, 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
Extortion (2017)
★ 6.1/10
A doctor desperately tries to save his wife and their 5 year old son after their vacation in the Bahamas takes an unexpected turn.
2
Pain & Gain (2013)
★ 6.3/10
Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices…
3
The Good Girl (2002)
★ 6.2/10
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
4
High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
★ 6.1/10
Two friends are drawn into a seedy underworld of extortion and violence when they try to blackmail a gang of bank robbers.
5
Dogville (2003)
★ 7.7/10
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
6
Snowball Express (1972)
★ 6.7/10
When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves the family west to run it. Only to find that the place is a wreck. But together they decide to try to fix it up and…
7
The Wild One (1953)
★ 6.5/10
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another…
8
Small Time Crooks (2000)
★ 6.5/10
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
9
Buddy Buddy (1981)
★ 6.1/10
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.
10
Braven (2018)
★ 6.2/10
A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.
11
Double Indemnity (1944)
★ 8.1/10
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
12
The Killing (1956)
★ 7.6/10
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…
13
The Four Musketeers (1974)
★ 6.5/10
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
14
Hard Eight (1997)
★ 6.8/10
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
15
Flypaper (2011)
★ 6.4/10
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
16
Body Heat (1981)
★ 7/10
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
17
Beat the Devil (1953)
★ 6.1/10
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
18
Mr. Lucky (1943)
★ 7.2/10
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
19
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
★ 6.6/10
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
20
Mr. Bones (2001)
★ 6/10
A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.