If You Liked Chinatown, Watch These Next
Finished Chinatown (1974) 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 Chinatown, 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.Cape Fear(1991)
7.3DramaCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
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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3.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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4.The Two Jakes(1990)
6.0CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and mystery
Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While…
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5.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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6.Blow Out(1981)
7.4CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and mystery
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some…
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7.Blue Velvet(1986)
7.6MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso mystery and thriller
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
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8.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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9.Striking Distance(1993)
5.9CrimeActionMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Demoted Pittsburgh cop Tom Hardy works river patrol while a serial killer targets women from his past, forcing him to conduct an unauthorized investigation to prove his innocence and expose a dirty cop.
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10.Cleaner(2007)
6.1CrimeThrillerMysteryAlso crime and thriller
Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may have unknowingly erased crucial evidence, entangling himself in a dirty criminal cover-up.
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11.8MM(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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12.Butterfly on a Wheel(2007)
6.4CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and thriller
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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13.Dirty Harry(1971)
7.5ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
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14.American Gigolo(1980)
6.2CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to…
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15.Just Cause(1995)
6.3ActionDramaMysteryAlso mystery and thriller
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
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17.Zodiac(2007)
7.5CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and mystery
Police conduct a manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers.
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18.Cutter's Way(1981)
6.5DramaMysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.
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19.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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