If You Liked Johnny Handsome, Watch These Next
Finished Johnny Handsome (1989) 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 Johnny Handsome, most of them are crime, drama, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.High Sierra(1941)
7.1CrimeDramaActionAlso crime and drama
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
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2.The Locksmith(2023)
5.9ThrillerMysteryActionAlso thriller and crime
A thief fresh out of prison, tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an unexpected disappearance.
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3.South of Heaven(2021)
6.4CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Convicted felon Jimmy gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release, he vows to give Annie, his childhood love, now dying from cancer, the best last year of her life – unfortunately it’s not that simple.
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4.A Crooked Somebody(2018)
6.3DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama and thriller
An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.
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5.Awake(2007)
6.6ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and crime
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
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6.The Grissom Gang(1971)
6.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Violent crime caper set in 1930s Kansas in which a gang kidnap an heiress and attempt to recover a ransom. However, the scheme is jeopardised when the leader falls in love with their beautiful captive.
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8.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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9.Out of Exile(2023)
6.5ThrillerDramaActionAlso thriller and drama
Recently paroled thief Gabriel Russell tries to balance his life and mend a troubled family as an FBI agent hunts him down, along with his crew after a botched armored car robbery.
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10.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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11.Tightrope(1984)
6.2MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
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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12.Body Brokers(2021)
6.2ThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
Utah and his girlfriend Opal, are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting recruited by body broker Wood and offered treatment in Los Angeles, Wood takes Utah under his wing and introduces him to treatment center mogul Vin. Wood and Vin bring Utah in on their lucrative and illegal dealings,…
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13.Levity(2003)
6.1CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the newly paroled man seeks redemption. Instead, redemption—in the form of a mysterious minister and two needy…
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14.Cut Throat City(2020)
6.4ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.
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15.The Anderson Tapes(1971)
6.1CrimeThrillerActionAlso crime and thriller
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.
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16.Righteous Kill(2008)
5.9CrimeThrillerMysteryAlso crime and thriller
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
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17.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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18.King Ivory(2025)
7.0CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Based on extensive research involving law enforcement and gang members, a never-before-seen, authentic look inside the underworld of fentanyl trafficking from gangs inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester a.k.a. "Big Mac."
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19.The Public Eye(1992)
6.2CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
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20.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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