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Movies Like Bear

If you liked Bear, a movie directed by David J. Smith, 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. 1Jack Reacher

    Jack Reacher (2012)

    ★ 6.7/10

    One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military sniper who is quickly brought into custody. The interrogation yields one…

  2. 2The Calling

    The Calling (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Port Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a…

  3. 3Crooked House

    Crooked House (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

  4. 4In the Electric Mist

    In the Electric Mist (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. When the star of the…

  5. 5Evil Under the Sun

    Evil Under the Sun (1982)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.

  6. 6Insomnia

    Insomnia (2002)

    ★ 7/10

    Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

  7. 7Thirteen at Dinner

    Thirteen at Dinner (1985)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound…

  8. 8Righteous Kill

    Righteous Kill (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the…

  9. 9Horsemen

    Horsemen (2009)

    ★ 6/10

    A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  10. 10The Mirror Crack'd

    The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

  11. 11Striking Distance

    Striking Distance (1993)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Demoted Pittsburgh cop Tom Hardy works river patrol while a serial killer targets women from his past, forcing him to conduct an unauthorized investigation to prove his innocence and expose a dirty cop.

  12. 12The Pale Blue Eye

    The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10

    West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting…

  13. 13Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

    Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10

    After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless…

  14. 14Night Moves

    Night Moves (1975)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida…

  15. 15Blood Work

    Blood Work (2002)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.

  16. 16Reasonable Doubt

    Reasonable Doubt (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10

    When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the…

  17. 17L.A. Confidential

    L.A. Confidential (1997)

    ★ 7.8/10

    Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

  18. 18Lady in the Lake

    Lady in the Lake (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to…

  19. 19Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10

    In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

  20. 20Dolores Claiborne

    Dolores Claiborne (1995)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera…

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