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Movies Like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

If you liked Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), a mystery and crime movie directed by Clint Eastwood, 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. 1In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood (1967)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama

    After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

  2. 2Beast

    Beast (2018)

    ★ 6.5/10Also mystery and crime

    A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.

  3. 3Juice

    Juice (1992)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama

    Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different…

  4. 4Winged Creatures

    Winged Creatures (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

    A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an…

  5. 5Kids

    Kids (1995)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime

    A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

  6. 6Rope

    Rope (1948)

    ★ 7.9/10Also crime and drama

    Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

  7. 7Marked for Death

    Marked for Death (1990)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama

    Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths…

  8. 8The Disappearance of Alice Creed

    The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    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.

  9. 9Blue Velvet

    Blue Velvet (1986)

    ★ 7.6/10Also mystery and crime

    The 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.

  10. 10Perfect Stranger

    Perfect Stranger (2007)

    ★ 5.8/10Also crime and mystery

    A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

  11. 11Shaft

    Shaft (1971)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

    Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

  12. 12The Nines

    The Nines (2007)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and mystery

    A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

  13. 13Bully

    Bully (2001)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and drama

    A group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Bobby, who has emotionally, physically, and sexually abused them for years.

  14. 14The Talented Mr. Ripley

    The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama

    Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his…

  15. 15Sharky's Machine

    Sharky's Machine (1981)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    Police 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…

  16. 16Dead Man Down

    Dead Man Down (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.

  17. 17Lost Highway

    Lost Highway (1997)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and mystery

    A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

  18. 18True Believer

    True Believer (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet…

  19. 19Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama

    A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district…

  20. 20Barron's Cove

    Barron's Cove (2025)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    When his young son is viciously murdered by a classmate, a grieving father with a history of violence kidnaps the child responsible, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by a powerful politician -- the father of the…

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