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10 Best Movies Like After Dark

If you loved After Dark, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

#2
True Believer

True Believer

1989★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases a...

#3
The Face Behind the Mask

The Face Behind the Mask

1941★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire....

#4
Winged Creatures

Winged Creatures

2009★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts h...

#5
In the Soup

In the Soup

1992★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film....

#6
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

1992★ 8.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After Dark for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Following the release of The Godfather Part III in 1990, Coppola, Barry Malkin, and Walter Murch edited the three Godfather movies into chronological order. As had the earlier comp...

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