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10 Best Movies Like Hardly a Criminal

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

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#1
Face

Face

1997★ 6.2

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

Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one ba...

#2
Heist 88

Heist 88

2023★ 6.7

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

A criminal mastermind recruits a group of young bank employees to steal 80 million dollars in one of the largest bank heist in US history....

#3
The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hardly a Criminal 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....

#4
They Live by Night

They Live by Night

1949★ 6.9

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

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning....

#5
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956★ 6.8

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

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude...

#6
The Web

The Web

1947★ 7.1

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

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his hea...

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