If You Liked Tightrope, Watch These Next
Finished Tightrope (1984) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Tightrope, most of them are mystery, thriller, crime.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Farewell, My Lovely(1975)
6.7CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and mystery
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
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2.Crimes of Passion(1984)
6.3CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.
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3.Mulholland Falls(1996)
6.0DramaMysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
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4.The Jester 2(2025)
6.9HorrorThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
When teen magician Max crosses paths with the sinister Jester on Halloween night, she must outsmart a supernatural killer whose magic is all too real and whose tricks always end up in blood.
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5.Frank and Penelope(2022)
7.4ThrillerHorrorCrimeAlso thriller and crime
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
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6.Psycho Killer(2026)
6.6CrimeHorrorMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial killer, and the depth of his mental depravity and his sinister agenda is more twisted than anyone could…
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8.Maniac Cop 2(1990)
6.0ActionHorrorMysteryAlso mystery and thriller
Undead cop Matt Cordell rises from the grave, and is after the criminals who murdered him in prison.
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11.Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer(1986)
6.7CrimeHorrorThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
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12.Strange Darling(2024)
6.9CrimeThrillerHorrorAlso crime and thriller
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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13.The Killer Inside Me(2010)
5.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed…
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14.Night of the Hunted(2023)
6.1HorrorMysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.
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15.Foxy Brown(1974)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
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16.Rise of the Footsoldier(2007)
6.3ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.
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18.Walking Tall: Lone Justice(2007)
5.8ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the agents are executed. However, Kate is only wounded, and her boyfriend Nick believes there is a…
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19.Until Death(2007)
6.0ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
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20.Kiss of the Dragon(2001)
6.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.
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