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10 Best Movies Like Criminals

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

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#1
Into the Darkness

Into the Darkness

2020★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Criminals for fans of War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five children. They live the good, privileged upper-class life on Strandvejen north of Cope...

#2
Flame & Citron

Flame & Citron

2008★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Criminals for fans of War & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gunman Flame and his partner Citron assassinate Nazi collaborators for the Danish resistance. Assigned targets by their Allies-connected leader, Aksel Winther, they relish the oppo...

#3
LOLA

LOLA

2023★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Criminals for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine....

#4
Stockholm Bloodbath

Stockholm Bloodbath

2024★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Criminals for fans of War & History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish crown from Sten Sture, no matter what it takes. Meanwhile, sisters Freja and Ann...

#5
Defiance

Defiance

2008★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Criminals for fans of War & History. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. Th...

#6
The Absent One

The Absent One

2014★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Criminals for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was...

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