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Movies Like Make Like a Thief

If you liked Make Like a Thief (1964), a crime and thriller movie directed by Åke Lindman and Palmer Thompson, 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. 1Family Plot

    Family Plot (1976)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and thriller

    Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

  2. 2The Wrong Man

    The Wrong Man (1956)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

  3. 3The Tourist

    The Tourist (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

  4. 4Thunder Road

    Thunder Road (1958)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and thriller

    Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from…

  5. 5Catch Me If You Can

    Catch Me If You Can (2002)

    ★ 8/10Also crime

    A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him…

  6. 6White Chicks

    White Chicks (2004)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car…

  7. 7Big Momma's House

    Big Momma's House (2000)

    ★ 5.8/10Also crime

    When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain…

  8. 8Bandits

    Bandits (2001)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated…

  9. 9The Two Faces of January

    The Two Faces of January (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller

    After he kills a detective, a con artist and his wife must trust a potentially dangerous stranger to help them get out of Greece.

  10. 10The Brink's Job

    The Brink's Job (1978)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis, who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs…

  11. 11Deception

    Deception (2008)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's…

  12. 12Oscar

    Oscar (1991)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime

    Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets…

  13. 13Dancer in the Dark

    Dancer in the Dark (2000)

    ★ 7.8/10Also crime

    Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation…

  14. 14Don't Bother to Knock

    Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

  15. 15O Brother, Where Art Thou?

    O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime

    In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

  16. 16The Big White

    The Big White (2005)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.

  17. 17Thick as Thieves

    Thick as Thieves (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller and crime

    A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.

  18. 18Fletch

    Fletch (1985)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With…

  19. 19Red Notice

    Red Notice (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.

  20. 20White Lightning

    White Lightning (1973)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

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