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Movies Like Easier Ways to Make a Living

If you liked Easier Ways to Make a Living (2009), a drama and mystery movie directed by Adam Randall, 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. 1The Deep End of the Ocean

    The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and mystery

    A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.

  2. 2Remember

    Remember (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and mystery

    With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

  3. 3Agatha and the Midnight Murders

    Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery and drama

    As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.

  4. 4Triage

    Triage (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and mystery

    The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

  5. 5Puncture

    Puncture (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and mystery

    Based on a true story. Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a brilliant but self-destructive Houston attorney whose drug addiction threatens to destroy his career. When he and his law partner Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) take on…

  6. 6The Good Doctor

    The Good Doctor (2011)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and mystery

    Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts…

  7. 7The Caveman's Valentine

    The Caveman's Valentine (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery

    Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim…

  8. 8They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

    They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery

    A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.

  9. 944 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

    44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.

  10. 10Overdrive

    Overdrive (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery

    Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.

  11. 11Fedora

    Fedora (1978)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and mystery

    Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.

  12. 12Stowaway

    Stowaway (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also mystery

    A tenacious party girl fights to survive after three thieves commandeer her luxury yacht. Unable to escape and trapped on the yacht at high seas, the prey becomes the hunter as she turns the tables on the intruders and…

  13. 13The Commuter

    The Commuter (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also mystery

    A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

  14. 14SAS: Red Notice

    SAS: Red Notice (2021)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the…

  15. 15Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery

    Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and mystery

    In the small resort town of Lighthouse Cove, everyone knows that the best man for the job is a woman. And that woman is Shannon Hughes, owner of a construction company and an expert in Victorian home restoration and…

  16. 16Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

    Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and mystery

    The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.

  17. 17Trigger Point

    Trigger Point (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery

    Nicolas Shaw is a retired U.S. special operative who becomes part of an elite 'invisible' team that quietly takes out the worst villains around the world.

  18. 18The Infernal Machine

    The Infernal Machine (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery

    Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his…

  19. 19Inseparable

    Inseparable (2012)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and mystery

    A troubled engineer faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. American expat Chuck, rescues him from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor.

  20. 20The Truth About Emanuel

    The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

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