If You Liked Karla, Watch These Next
Finished Karla (2006) 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 Karla, most of them are crime, drama, thriller.
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19 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Cape Fear(1991)
7.3DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
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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2.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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3.Butterfly on a Wheel(2007)
6.4CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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4.The Whisper Man(2026)
6.9CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
When his young son vanishes, a widower enlists help from his estranged father, a retired detective who put away the serial killer now linked to the case.
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5.Just Cause(1995)
6.3ActionDramaMysteryAlso drama 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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6.Affliction(1998)
6.3CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.
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7.Suburbicon(2017)
5.9ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.
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8.Back Roads(2019)
5.9CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface.
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9.Mystic River(2003)
7.7ThrillerDramaMysteryAlso thriller and drama
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
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10.Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile(2019)
7.0DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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11.One False Move(1992)
6.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the…
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13.At Close Range(1986)
6.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man.
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14.Disclosure(1994)
6.2ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso thriller and drama
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
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16.The Devil All the Time(2020)
7.2CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
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18.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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19.Straw Dogs(2011)
5.9DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
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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