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Movies Like A Simple Midwest Story

If you liked A Simple Midwest Story (2001), a crime movie directed by Blake Eckard, 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. 1Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

    Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase…

  2. 2Accident Man

    Accident Man (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.

  3. 3Blood Ties

    Blood Ties (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

  4. 4The Brothers Rico

    The Brothers Rico (1957)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who…

  5. 5Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  6. 6Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

  7. 7Knockaround Guys

    Knockaround Guys (2001)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.

  8. 8Fast Charlie

    Fast Charlie (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.

  9. 9Panic

    Panic (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful…

  10. 10Wardriver

    Wardriver (2026)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime

    He’s a Wardriver: a hacker who steals from banks, not people—until he’s noticed. Now the money turns violent, and the woman caught in it could save him or kill them both.

  11. 11Underworld U.S.A.

    Underworld U.S.A. (1961)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

  12. 12Shade

    Shade (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game…

  13. 13Barron's Cove

    Barron's Cove (2025)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    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…

  14. 14Lawless

    Lawless (2012)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard…

  15. 15180

    180 (2026)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime

    When an unexpected road rage incident puts his son in critical condition, an enraged father spirals down a dark path of emotional turmoil and vengeance.

  16. 16In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood (1967)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime

    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.

  17. 17No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers

    No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    Two feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent who was brutally murdered by the mafia.

  18. 18The Crash

    The Crash (2026)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    A teen slams her car into a building, killing her boyfriend and his friend. What seems like a tragic accident becomes a murder case.

  19. 19Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a…

  20. 20All the Devils Are Here

    All the Devils Are Here (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    After a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.

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