Movies Like Le Trou

If you liked Le Trou (1960), a drama and thriller movie directed by Jacques Becker, 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
A Man Escaped (1956)
★ 8/10Also drama and thriller
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
2
The Last Diamond (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and crime
Simon, a burglar on probation, agreed to go on the biggest shot of his life: The flight of the "Florentine", a mythical diamond set auction by its owners. To succeed, he must approach Julia, expert diamond for sale…
3
The Crook (1970)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller and crime
A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
4
Time Without Pity (1957)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and thriller
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a…
5
Kiss of Death (1947)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and thriller
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
6
The Young Savages (1961)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
7
The Bride Wore Black (1968)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home with the intent to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?
8
La Menace (1977)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and thriller
Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first…
9
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and drama
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.
10
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and crime
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
11
He Ran All the Way (1951)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller and crime
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
12
The Defiant Ones (1958)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
13
5 Against the House (1955)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
14
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and drama
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former…
15
Nancy (2018)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and thriller
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
16
Instinct (1999)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually…
17
The Killer Is Loose (1956)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and thriller
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole…
18
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
★ 7.5/10Also thriller and crime
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle…
19
Maigret Sees Red (1963)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the FBI and a series of underworld figures…
20
The Woman in the Window (1944)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.