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Movies Like Under the influence of fear

If you liked Under the influence of fear (1956), a crime and drama movie directed by Juan Orol, 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. 1Winged 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…

  2. 2Salvable

    Salvable (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    When a battered boxer past his prime finds his dreams and his relationships on the ropes, he falls back in with a dangerous crowd and has to take the biggest swing of his life to reclaim his hope and his family.

  3. 3True 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…

  4. 4Sin tetas no hay paraíso

    Sin tetas no hay paraíso (2010)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama

    Catalina is a young, beautiful girl living in extreme poverty with her brother Bayron and her mother Hilda. She becomes obsessed with getting breast implants to get social status and money. She leaves her boyfriend…

  5. 5Siberian Education

    Siberian Education (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime

    The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against…

  6. 6American Murderer

    American Murderer (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

    The True story of how charismatic con man Jason Derek Brown bankrolls his extravagant lifestyle through a series of scams. On Brown’s trail: Lance Leising, a dogged FBI special agent determined to put Brown behind…

  7. 7Each Dawn I Die

    Each Dawn I Die (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

    A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

  8. 8Belly

    Belly (1998)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

    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…

  9. 9Togo

    Togo (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Togo just wants to watch his neighbors' homes, wash their cars and clean up their sidewalks. But the drug traffickers want more from him.

  10. 10Beyond 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…

  11. 11Panic

    Panic (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    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…

  12. 12Empire

    Empire (2002)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    Big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top…

  13. 13The Unforgivable

    The Unforgivable (2021)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and crime

    A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

  14. 14Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  15. 15Cry of the City

    Cry of the City (1948)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and drama

    Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check…

  16. 16Convict

    Convict (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the…

  17. 17Inside Man

    Inside Man (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    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.

  18. 18Riot in Cell Block 11

    Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

  19. 19The Valachi Papers

    The Valachi Papers (1972)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred…

  20. 20Run

    Run (1991)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and crime

    When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.

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