Movies Like Act of Violence
If you liked Act of Violence (1949), a thriller and drama movie directed by Fred Zinnemann, 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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The Blue Dahlia (1946)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaSoon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
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Pitfall (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAn insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
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The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and dramaConcentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
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The Last Rifleman (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his…
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Cornered (1945)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerA World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
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Taking Chance (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaLt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
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The Man Who Never Was (1956)
★ 7/10Also thriller and dramaThe true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies…
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Ballistic (2026)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller and dramaWhen a soldier's mother discovers the bullet that killed her son in Afghanistan was made at the factory where she works, she sets out on a path of revenge against those responsible.
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36 Hours (1964)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and thrillerGermans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.
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Somewhere in the Night (1946)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerGeorge Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
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Battleground (1949)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaMembers of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their…
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Reality (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thrillerAugusta, Georgia, United States, June 3, 2017. After running some errands, Reality Winner returns home, where she is approached by two men.
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Black Widow (1987)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerFederal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple…
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The Dark Corner (1946)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaEx-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in…
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House of Bamboo (1955)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaEddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
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Foreign Correspondent (1940)
★ 7/10Also thrillerAmerican crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a…
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Dark Passage (1947)
★ 7.3/10Also thrillerA man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
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The One That Got Away (1957)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaBased on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
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Ladies They Talk About (1933)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.