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Movies Like Neo-Noir

If you liked Neo-Noir (2002), a drama and crime movie directed by Chase Palmer, 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. 1Breaking News in Yuba County

    Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes…

  2. 2Thick as Thieves

    Thick as Thieves (1999)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and comedy

    Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing…

  3. 3Panic

    Panic (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    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…

  4. 4Small Apartments

    Small Apartments (2012)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and crime

    When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters…

  5. 5Where the Money Is

    Where the Money Is (2000)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and crime

    Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing…

  6. 6Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

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

  7. 7Blindspotting

    Blindspotting (2018)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy and crime

    Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two…

  8. 8Thin Ice

    Thin Ice (2012)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and crime

    A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.

  9. 9Intermission

    Intermission (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

    A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to…

  10. 10Defendor

    Defendor (2009)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy

    A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to…

  11. 11The Parts You Lose

    The Parts You Lose (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and crime

    An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.

  12. 12True 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…

  13. 13Cigarettes & Coffee

    Cigarettes & Coffee (1993)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and crime

    At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut…

  14. 14The Enforcer

    The Enforcer (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also crime and drama

    A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to…

  15. 15Beyond 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…

  16. 16Siberian Education

    Siberian Education (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime

    The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against…

  17. 17Above the Rim

    Above the Rim (1994)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

  18. 18One Night at McCool's

    One Night at McCool's (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and crime

    On an ordinary night, in an ordinary part of town, a beautiful young woman walks into a bar. Her name is Jewel, and before long she is chatting to bartender Randy. The pair leave together, but he ends up getting into a…

  19. 19Monsieur Verdoux

    Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

    ★ 7.7/10Also comedy and crime

    The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child…

  20. 20Amateur

    Amateur (1994)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and comedy

    A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.

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