If You Liked A Time to Kill, Watch These Next
Finished A Time to Kill (1996) 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 A Time to Kill, most of them are crime, drama, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The Chamber(1996)
5.9CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
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2.Mississippi Burning(1988)
7.7DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
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3.The Whole Truth(2016)
6.6DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.
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4.Cape Fear(1991)
7.3DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have…
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5.Dark Places(2015)
5.9ThrillerMysteryDramaAlso thriller and drama
A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
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7.Due Justice(2023)
5.8ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
An attorney with a military past hunts down the gang who killed his wife and took his daughter.
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8.Storm Warning(1951)
6.6DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.
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9.Desperation Road(2023)
6.6ThrillerActionCrimeAlso thriller and crime
Ex-con Russell Gaines is attempting to rebuild his life with the help of his father, Mitchell. However, the arrival of Maben sends his new life into chaos, leading the pair to go on the run - as their violent pasts catch up to them, the pair must learn to trust each other if they hope to live out the rest of their…
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11.Shot Caller(2017)
7.0CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
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12.Primal Fear(1996)
7.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets…
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13.Anatomy of a Murder(1959)
7.8CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case…
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15.Violent Ends(2025)
6.3ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
Lucas Frost, an honest man brought up in a crime family whose only legacy is violence, tries to make his own life with his fiancée, Emma. He is suddenly pulled back into the family business he so despises when his cousin, Eli, perpetrates an armed robbery on a local scrap yard and an innocent life is caught in the…
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16.Avengement(2019)
6.8CrimeActionThrillerAlso crime and thriller
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
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17.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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18.Sudden Impact(1983)
6.6ThrillerCrimeActionAlso thriller and crime
When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, to bring her to justice.
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19.Shaft(2000)
6.0ActionAdventureCrimeAlso crime and thriller
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to…
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20.Dead Man Down(2013)
6.2ThrillerActionCrimeAlso thriller and crime
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
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