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Movies Like Thieves Like Us

If you liked Thieves Like Us (1974), a crime and drama movie directed by Robert Altman, 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. 1The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama

    Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

  2. 2The Night of the Hunter

    The Night of the Hunter (1955)

    ★ 7.9/10Also crime and drama

    In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

  3. 3The Newton Boys

    The Newton Boys (1998)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama

    The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.

  4. 4Little Caesar

    Little Caesar (1931)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime

    A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

  5. 5The Parts You Lose

    The Parts You Lose (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and crime

    An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.

  6. 6The Wild One

    The Wild One (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime

    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…

  7. 7Robbery

    Robbery (1967)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama

    In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.

  8. 8Odds Against Tomorrow

    Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

    An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

  9. 9The Defiant Ones

    The Defiant Ones (1958)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama

    Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

  10. 10The Outsiders

    The Outsiders (1983)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama

    In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival…

  11. 11House of Strangers

    House of Strangers (1949)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and crime

    Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business…

  12. 12The Thomas Crown Affair

    The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime

    Bored billionaire executive Thomas Crown decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover as he’s fallen in love.

  13. 13The Wrong Man

    The Wrong Man (1956)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

  14. 14White Heat

    White Heat (1949)

    ★ 7.7/10Also crime and drama

    A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

  15. 15Winter's Tale

    Winter's Tale (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

  16. 16Brute Force

    Brute Force (1947)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama

    Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's…

  17. 17Pushover

    Pushover (1954)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama

    A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.

  18. 18Heist

    Heist (2001)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman, reneges on the money he's owed, and his wife may be betraying him with the fence's young…

  19. 19Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

    Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and crime

    The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.

  20. 20Under Capricorn

    Under Capricorn (1949)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and romance

    A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a young newcomer stirs long-buried passions and secrets.

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