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Movies Like The Profile of the Crime

If you liked The Profile of the Crime (1994), a thriller movie directed by Alejandro Todd, 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. 1Killer's Kiss

    Killer's Kiss (1955)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller

    Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The…

  2. 2Nightmare Alley

    Nightmare Alley (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller

    An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

  3. 3You Kill Me

    You Kill Me (2007)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

  4. 4Someone to Watch Over Me

    Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

    Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigned to protect her.

  5. 5Dressed to Kill

    Dressed to Kill (1980)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller

    After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing…

  6. 6Road House

    Road House (1989)

    ★ 6.8/10Also thriller

    The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he's more than…

  7. 7Savaged

    Savaged (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.

  8. 8Careful What You Wish For

    Careful What You Wish For (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

  9. 9Another Day in Paradise

    Another Day in Paradise (1998)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.

  10. 10Faces in the Crowd

    Faces in the Crowd (2011)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.

  11. 11Buried Alive

    Buried Alive (1990)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller

    A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.

  12. 12Erótica

    Erótica (1979)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller

    Two men commit a robbery. One is caught but the other escapes. He ends his escape on a lonely and deserted beach where he meets a beautiful woman named Erótica. They start a passionate love affair that is interrupted…

  13. 13Blood Simple

    Blood Simple (1985)

    ★ 7.3/10Also thriller

    The 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…

  14. 14The Bedroom Window

    The Bedroom Window (1987)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller

    Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.

  15. 15Gang Related

    Gang Related (1997)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller

    After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.

  16. 16Vice Squad

    Vice Squad (1982)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

  17. 17The Neon Demon

    The Neon Demon (2016)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller

    When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

  18. 18No Mercy

    No Mercy (1986)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller

    An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.

  19. 19The Prowler

    The Prowler (1981)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller

    Thirty years after a murder on the night of Avalon Bay's graduation dance, the sleepy town's teens meet grisly ends at the hands of a prowler once thought to be a jilted soldier home from war.

  20. 20Basic Instinct

    Basic Instinct (1992)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller

    Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.

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