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Movies Like In the Name of Innocence

If you liked In the Name of Innocence (1997), a drama movie directed by Andreas Kleinert, 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 Hitch-Hiker

    The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no…

  2. 2A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

    A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local…

  3. 3The Crossing Guard

    The Crossing Guard (1995)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.

  4. 4The Rain People

    The Rain People (1969)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.

  5. 5The Truth About Emanuel

    The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

  6. 6Detour

    Detour (1945)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

  7. 7Horns

    Horns (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

  8. 8They Drive by Night

    They Drive by Night (1940)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success…

  9. 9End of the Road

    End of the Road (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Recently widowed mom Brenda fights to protect her family during a harrowing road trip when a murder and a missing bag of cash plunge them into danger.

  10. 10The Good Neighbor

    The Good Neighbor (2022)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and…

  11. 11I Want to Live!

    I Want to Live! (1958)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

  12. 12The Dead Girl

    The Dead Girl (2006)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.

  13. 13Remember

    Remember (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

  14. 14Lizzie

    Lizzie (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family…

  15. 15Tuesday

    Tuesday (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

  16. 16Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

    Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

  17. 17A Thousand and One

    A Thousand and One (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so…

  18. 18The Young One

    The Young One (1960)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

  19. 19Premonition

    Premonition (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still…

  20. 20Jack the Ripper

    Jack the Ripper (1976)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.

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