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Movies Like Reversal of Fortune

If you liked Reversal of Fortune (1990), a drama and crime movie directed by Barbet Schroeder, 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. 1Monster

    Monster (2021)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

    The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.

  2. 2Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

    Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and crime

    A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

  3. 3Winged Creatures

    Winged Creatures (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

    A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an…

  4. 4The Good Nurse

    The Good Nurse (2022)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime

    Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

  5. 5Blood Work

    Blood Work (2002)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.

  6. 6Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

    Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama

    A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of…

  7. 7L.A. Confidential

    L.A. Confidential (1997)

    ★ 7.8/10Also crime

    Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

  8. 8The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also crime

    An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

  9. 9True Believer

    True Believer (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet…

  10. 10Death Sentence

    Death Sentence (2007)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama

    Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no…

  11. 11Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

    Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime

    Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?

  12. 12A Walk Among the Tombstones

    A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

  13. 13Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama

    A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district…

  14. 14The United States of Leland

    The United States of Leland (2003)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl…

  15. 15The Onion Field

    The Onion Field (1979)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.

  16. 16I Am Elizabeth Smart

    I Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime

    The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.

  17. 17In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood (1967)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama

    After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

  18. 18The Bone Collector

    The Bone Collector (1999)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves…

  19. 19Presumed Innocent

    Presumed Innocent (1990)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

  20. 20The Laundromat

    The Laundromat (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.

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