If You Liked Cruising, Watch These Next
Finished Cruising (1980) 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 Cruising, most of them are crime, mystery, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Basic Instinct(1992)
7.0ThrillerMysteryAlso thriller and mystery
Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
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2.8MM(1999)
6.5ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and crime
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts…
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3.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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5.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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6.Brooklyn's Finest(2010)
6.3CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
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7.Tightrope(1984)
6.2MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso mystery and thriller
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
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8.Summer of Sam(1999)
6.5CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
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9.The Believers(1987)
5.9HorrorMysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
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10.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.The Corruptor(1999)
6.1ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.
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12.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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14.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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15.Strange Days(1995)
7.0CrimeScience FictionThrillerAlso crime and thriller
In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
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16.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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17.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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18.Out for Justice(1991)
6.2ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and thriller
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.
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19.The Infernal Machine(2022)
6.3ThrillerMysteryAlso thriller and mystery
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. Cogburn's search for who is behind the manipulation and mental torment he…
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20.Body Double(1984)
6.7CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and mystery
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully…
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