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Movies Like Brightness

If you liked Brightness (2001), a movie directed by Andrew Tsao, 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. 1Take the Money and Run

    Take the Money and Run (1969)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

  2. 2Parker

    Parker (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of…

  3. 3Bandolero!

    Bandolero! (1968)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Posing as a hangman, Mace Bishop arrives in town with the intention of freeing a gang of outlaws, including his brother, from the gallows. Mace urges his younger brother to give up crime. The sheriff chases the…

  4. 4Oscar

    Oscar (1991)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets…

  5. 5Nothing to Lose

    Nothing to Lose (1997)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary…

  6. 6Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

    ★ 6.2/10

    After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty…

  7. 7Run All Night

    Run All Night (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind…

  8. 8Rise of the Footsoldier

    Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10

    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.

  9. 9Hud

    Hud (1963)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict…

  10. 10Go West

    Go West (1940)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A con man heading west to search for gold teams up with a pair of scheming brothers along the way. The trio soon find themselves in the middle of a feud between two rival families and two underhanded land developers.

  11. 11The Specialist

    The Specialist (1994)

    ★ 6/10

    May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent…

  12. 12From Noon Till Three

    From Noon Till Three (1976)

    ★ 6/10

    Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her…

  13. 13Lawman

    Lawman (1971)

    ★ 6.5/10

    While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock…

  14. 14Legend

    Legend (2015)

    ★ 7/10

    Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies…

  15. 15Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  16. 16Short Circuit 2

    Short Circuit 2 (1988)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Robot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.

  17. 17The Two Faces of January

    The Two Faces of January (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10

    After he kills a detective, a con artist and his wife must trust a potentially dangerous stranger to help them get out of Greece.

  18. 18The Thin Man Goes Home

    The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Hoping for a peaceful visit with his parents in the small town of Sycamore Springs, Nick Charles and his wife Nora soon find themselves surrounded by old rivalries, family tensions, and a mysterious murder. Nick’s…

  19. 19True History of the Kelly Gang

    True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Set against the badlands of Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels — an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits…

  20. 20The Outfit

    The Outfit (1973)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed…

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