Movies Like Out of the Past
If you liked Out of the Past (1947), a crime and thriller movie directed by Jacques Tourneur, 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.
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The Killers (1946)
★ 7.4/10Also crime and thrillerTwo hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a…
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Burn (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and crimeLonely, unstable gas station attendant Melinda is tired of being overshadowed by her more confident, outgoing co-worker Sheila. When the gas station is held up at gunpoint by Billy, a desperate man in need of quick…
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The Last Seduction (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and crimeA devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
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Sexy Beast (2001)
★ 7/10Also crime and thrillerEx-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading…
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Night of the Hunted (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerWhen an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her…
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The Killers (1964)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeA hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
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The Silent Hour (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and thrillerWhile working a case as an interpreter, a hearing-impaired police detective must confront a group of criminals trying to eliminate a deaf murder witness in her apartment building.
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The Getaway (1972)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and thrillerA recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
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Sharky's Machine (1981)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and thrillerPolice officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he…
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Last Seen Alive (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerAfter Will Spann's wife suddenly vanishes at a gas station, his desperate search to find her leads him down a dark path that forces him to run from authorities and take the law into his own hands.
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Kill Me Again (1989)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and crimeAfter Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her…
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The Call (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and thrillerJordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a…
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In Too Deep (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and crimeDrug 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…
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Blue Velvet (1986)
★ 7.6/10Also thriller and crimeThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
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Wheelman (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and thrillerA getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.
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Twilight (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and thrillerA retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
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The Last Stop in Yuma County (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and thrillerWhile awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no…
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and thrillerA married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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Blood Simple (1985)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and thrillerThe owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them…
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and thrillerThe sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.