If You Liked Bitter Rice, Watch These Next
Finished Bitter Rice (1949) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Bitter Rice, most of them are drama, crime.
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19 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
2.The Day of the Owl(1968)
7.1DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
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3.The Unforgivable(2021)
7.4DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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6.Belly(1998)
6.3CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?
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7.Above the Rim(1994)
7.1CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
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8.Play Dirty(2025)
6.6CrimeActionThrillerAlso crime
Expert thief Parker gets a shot at a major heist, but to pull it off he and his team must outsmart a South American dictator, the New York mob, and the world's richest man.
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9.Sexy Beast(2001)
7.0CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and drama
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.
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10.The United States of Leland(2003)
6.5CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected…
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11.The Protector(1985)
5.9ActionCrimeAlso crime
Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug…
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12.Another Day in Paradise(1998)
6.2ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.
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13.Light Sleeper(1992)
6.7DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something more acute — and dangerous — when he re-encounters an old flame while a string of seemingly…
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14.Siberian Education(2013)
6.8DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find…
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16.In the Blood(2014)
5.8ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
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17.The Betrayed(2008)
5.8CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Kidnappers force a young mother to recover money stolen by her shady husband.
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18.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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19.A Crooked Somebody(2018)
6.3DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama and crime
An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.
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