Movies Like Naked Lunch

If you liked Naked Lunch (1991), a crime and drama movie directed by David Cronenberg, 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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   Winged Creatures (2009)

   ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

   A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an…

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   The Nines (2007)

   ★ 6/10Also drama

   A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

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   Layer Cake (2004)

   ★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime

   When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

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   The Basketball Diaries (1995)

   ★ 7.4/10Also drama and crime

   A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

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   Disgrace (2008)

   ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

   Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect…

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   Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

   ★ 7/10Also drama and crime

   A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

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   The Last Days of American Crime (2020)

   ★ 6.4/10Also crime

   In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to crime and terrorism, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal that will make it impossible for anyone to knowingly break the law.

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   Blue Velvet (1986)

   ★ 7.6/10Also crime

   The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

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   Point Blank (1967)

   ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

   After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

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    Fast Charlie (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.

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    The Woman in the Window (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also crime

    An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

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    The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime

    Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous 'Marsh King', the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to…

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    White Boy Rick (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

    The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s, and was ultimately arrested for drug trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.

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    The Green Mile (1999)

    ★ 8.5/10Also drama and crime

    A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's…

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    The Informer (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime

    In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the…

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    My Friend Dahmer (2017)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime

    Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he was to become.

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    Midnight Cowboy (1969)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to…

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    The System (2022)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime

    When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.

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    Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime

    Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.

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    Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills…