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10 Best Movies Like Detective

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

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#1
Gone in Sixty Seconds

Gone in Sixty Seconds

2000★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detective for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brother Kip's life, former car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines enlists help from a few ...

#2
Sholay

Sholay

1975★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detective for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After his family is slain by the notorious bandit Gabbar Singh, former Inspector Thakur Baldev Singh enlists low-level outlaws Jai and Veeru to capture Gabbar and seek revenge....

#3
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#4
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#5
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

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

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...