Movies Like Curiosity Excited the Kat

If you liked Curiosity Excited the Kat (1983), a crime movie directed by Jason Whitman and Barbara Behr, 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 Unforgivable (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also 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.
2
Convict (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also crime
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…
3
Brute Force (1947)
★ 7.3/10Also crime
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's…
4
White Heat (1949)
★ 7.7/10Also crime
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
5
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…
6
Girl in the Basement (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also crime
Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.
7
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
★ 7.1/10Also crime
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
8
The Informer (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also crime
In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the…
9
Brubaker (1980)
★ 7.1/10Also crime
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
10
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
★ 7/10Also crime
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
11
Bad Boys (1983)
★ 7/10Also crime
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile…
12
The Enforcer (1976)
★ 6.7/10Also crime
Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
13
The System (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also crime
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
14
Jamesy Boy (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also crime
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected…
15
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…
16
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
★ 8.7/10Also crime
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden…
17
They Live by Night (1949)
★ 6.8/10Also crime
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
18
Voyeur (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also crime
Legendary journalist Gay Talese unmasks a motel owner who spied on his guests for decades. But his bombshell story soon becomes a scandal of its own.
19
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also crime
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
20
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
★ 6.5/10Also crime
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.