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Movies Like The Crimson Circle

If you liked The Crimson Circle (1922), a mystery and crime movie directed by George Ridgwell, 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. 1Absolution

    Absolution (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and mystery

    An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children…

  2. 2Suburbicon

    Suburbicon (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and mystery

    In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect…

  3. 3Belly

    Belly (1998)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking…

  4. 4Havoc

    Havoc (2025)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime

    When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.

  5. 5The Limits of Control

    The Limits of Control (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and mystery

    A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him…

  6. 6Inside Man

    Inside Man (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    Based on true events. A disgraced police detective seeking redemption goes undercover to expose a violent crime syndicate. But as he sinks deeper into the mob, the price for absolution may be higher than he can afford.

  7. 7The International

    The International (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and mystery

    An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their…

  8. 8Wrong Cops

    Wrong Cops (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.

  9. 9Panic

    Panic (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful…

  10. 10Welcome to the Punch

    Welcome to the Punch (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime

    When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.

  11. 11A Walk Among the Tombstones

    A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and mystery

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

  12. 12The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and mystery

    Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while…

  13. 13Righteous Kill

    Righteous Kill (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and mystery

    Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the…

  14. 14The Rookie

    The Rookie (1990)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime

    Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help…

  15. 15Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

    Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase…

  16. 16In Too Deep

    In Too Deep (1999)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime

    Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an…

  17. 17The Locksmith

    The Locksmith (2023)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery and crime

    A thief fresh out of prison, tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an…

  18. 18McQ

    McQ (1974)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and mystery

    Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.

  19. 19Shade

    Shade (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game…

  20. 20Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and mystery

    When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

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