Movies like The Killing

A feature-film shortlist from the cached Film Atlas engine. The interactive map may include more titles or newer results. These are similarity matches, not a guarantee of age suitability.

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   Odds Against Tomorrow

   Strong story similarity

   1959 · 96 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: film noir and heist
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Crime of Passion

   Shared cast

   1956 · 86 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • principal cast overlap

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   White Heat

   Strong story similarity

   1949 · 114 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: film noir and gangster
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Too Late for Tears

   Strong story similarity

   1949 · 99 min · Crime · Thriller

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   Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: bag of money and femme fatale
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Woman of Straw

   Strong story similarity

   1964 · 122 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared production studio: United Artists

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   The League of Gentlemen

   Strong story similarity

   1960 · 116 min · Comedy · Crime

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   Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: black and white and heist
   • shared heist movie style

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   A Clockwork Orange

   Same director

   1971 · 137 min · Crime · Science Fiction

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   In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • shared heist movie style

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   Dial M for Murder

   Strong story similarity

   1954 · 105 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Man Is Armed

   Strong story similarity

   1956 · 70 min · Crime · Drama

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   Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: film noir and heist

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    Bonnie and Clyde

    Strong story similarity

    1967 · 111 min · Crime · Drama

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    In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow, and together they start a violent crime spree throughout the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared heist movie style

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