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10 Best Movies Like L.A. Confidential

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

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#1
Office Space

Office Space

1999★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to L.A. Confidential for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a...

#2
Unforgiven

Unforgiven

1992★ 7.9

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

William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to fin...

#3
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

1989★ 7.8

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

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while sear...

#4
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

1998★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to L.A. Confidential for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang w...

#5
The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects

1995★ 8.2

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

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and h...

#6
Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves

1948★ 8.2

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

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is do...