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10 Best Movies Like Bending The Rules

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

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#1
Thick as Thieves

Thick as Thieves

1999★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bending The Rules for fans of Action & Drama & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jaz...

#2
Breaking News in Yuba County

Breaking News in Yuba County

2021★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bending The Rules for fans of Drama & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the...

#3
Intermission

Intermission

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bending The Rules for fans of Drama & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconcepti...

#4
Defendor

Defendor

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bending The Rules for fans of Action & Drama & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn'...

#5
Freebie and the Bean

Freebie and the Bean

1974★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bending The Rules for fans of Action & Drama & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does....

#6
The Seven-Ups

The Seven-Ups

1973★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bending The Rules for fans of Action & Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money....

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