Movies Like Blackmail

If you liked Blackmail (1955), a movie directed by Guy Lefranc, 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
The Big Knife (1955)
★ 6/10
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While…
2
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)
★ 7.2/10
After his estranged son gets embroiled in a Nazi plot, self-exiled gangster Tommy Shelby must return to Birmingham to save his family — and his nation.
3
Relay (2025)
★ 7/10
A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive.
4
Dick Tracy (1990)
★ 6.2/10
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
5
The Big Sleep (1978)
★ 5.9/10
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
6
High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
★ 6.1/10
Two friends are drawn into a seedy underworld of extortion and violence when they try to blackmail a gang of bank robbers.
7
Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
★ 6.5/10
Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.
8
An Ideal Husband (1999)
★ 6.5/10
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to…
9
The East (2013)
★ 6.5/10
An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
10
Telefon (1977)
★ 6.6/10
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their…
11
Red Sparrow (2018)
★ 6.5/10
Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people…
12
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
★ 7.1/10
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order…
13
The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
★ 6.5/10
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined…
14
Squad 36 (2025)
★ 6.2/10
Forced out of his elite unit, a troubled cop launches his own rogue investigation when mysterious killings claim the lives of his former colleagues.
15
Blacklight (2022)
★ 6.1/10
Travis Block is a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed. He then has to uncover a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks that reaches the highest echelons of…
16
Pitfall (1948)
★ 6.8/10
An 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.
17
Jo (1971)
★ 7.2/10
A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
18
The Beekeeper (2024)
★ 7.3/10
One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
19
Pickup on South Street (1953)
★ 7.4/10
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified…
20
52 Pick-Up (1986)
★ 6.1/10
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and…