If You Liked Rope, Watch These Next
Finished Rope (1948) 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 Rope, most of them are thriller, crime, drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Perfect Stranger(2007)
5.8ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and crime
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.
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2.Beyond a Reasonable Doubt(1956)
6.8CrimeDramaAlso 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 attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub…
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4.Barron's Cove(2025)
7.2CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and thriller
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 kidnapped boy.
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5.Panic(2000)
6.2CrimeDramaAlso 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 part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he…
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6.Inside Man(2023)
6.1CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and thriller
Based on true events. A disgraced police detective seeking redemption goes undercover to expose a violent crime syndicate. But as he sinks deeper into the mob, the price for absolution may be higher than he can afford.
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7.Blindfire(2020)
6.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the person responsible while examining his own accountability and the ingrained racism which brought him to…
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8.The Devil You Know(2022)
6.7ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso thriller and drama
Once-incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving family. Upon discovering that one of his brothers may have been involved in a horrific crime, Marcus grapples with the limits of brotherhood and loyalty. He and his family, increasingly weary of the justice system’s…
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10.Black Site(2022)
6.0ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
A group of officers based in a labyrinthine top-secret prison must fight for their lives against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee. When he escapes, his mysterious and deadly agenda has far reaching and dire consequences.
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11.In Cold Blood(1967)
7.5CrimeDramaAlso 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.
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12.The International(2009)
6.3ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the…
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13.The Killer(2023)
6.6CrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
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14.The Public Eye(1992)
6.2CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
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15.Suburbicon(2017)
5.9ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.
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16.The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover(1989)
7.3CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it…
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18.A Walk Among the Tombstones(2014)
6.3CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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19.The Naked City(1948)
7.2CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and thriller
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
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20.All the Devils Are Here(2025)
6.3ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and 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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