Movies Like Negresco

If you liked Negresco (1968), a romance and crime movie directed by Klaus Lemke, 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
Mata Hari (1931)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
2
Killer Heat (2024)
★ 5.8/10Also crime and drama
An expat PI is hired to investigate a suspicious death in Crete, Greece, where jealousies run deep amongst the victim's powerful family.
3
Appointment with Death (1988)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the…
4
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order…
5
Touch of Evil (1958)
★ 7.7/10Also crime and drama
A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.
6
The Killing (1956)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and drama
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…
7
Grand Hotel (1932)
★ 7/10Also drama and romance
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
8
The Public Eye (1992)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
9
Pandora's Box (1929)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
10
Bugsy (1991)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies…
11
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and drama
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
12
Atlantic City (1980)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
13
The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and crime
Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.
14
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
15
Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
16
They Live by Night (1949)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and romance
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
17
In Secret (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and crime
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching…
18
The Hot Spot (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and crime
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
19
Hard Eight (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
20
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and crime
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.