If You Liked The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Watch These Next
Finished The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (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 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, most of them are crime, drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Querelle(1982)
6.6DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband: if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane; if you lose, you have to make love with…
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2.Auto Focus(2002)
6.4CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama…
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4.The Killer Inside Me(2010)
5.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed…
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5.Brooklyn Rules(2007)
5.8DramaActionThrillerAlso drama and crime
Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
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6.Straw Dogs(2011)
5.9DramaThrillerAlso drama
A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.
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7.A Clockwork Orange(1971)
8.2Science FictionCrimeAlso crime
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure…
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9.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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10.Once Upon a Time in America(1984)
8.4DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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11.Sin City(2005)
7.5CrimeThrillerAlso crime
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A…
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12.Citizen X(1995)
7.2CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of…
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13.Dear Mr. Gacy(2010)
5.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
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14.State of Grace(1990)
6.9DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
Hell's Kitchen, New York. Terry Noonan returns home after a ten-year absence. He soon reconnects with Jackie, a childhood friend and member of the Irish mob, and rekindles his love affair with Jackie's sister Kathleen.
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16.Kill Me Again(1989)
6.1ThrillerCrimeAlso crime
After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him…
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17.Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair(2011)
8.1ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her entire wedding party, and four…
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19.Se7en(1995)
8.4CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind,…
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20.Lansky(2021)
6.0CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster spins a dizzying tale, revealing the untold truth about his life as the notorious boss of Murder Inc. and the National Crime Syndicate.
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