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10 Best Movies Like Once Upon a Crime

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

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#1
Nothing But the Truth

Nothing But the Truth

2008★ 6.9

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

When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special pros...

#2
Bootleggers

Bootleggers

1962★ 7.4

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

This is the second silent (save for a song) slapstick comedy short about adventures of Worldly, Coward, and Fool. In a small hunting lodge three friends are making illegal moonshin...

#3
The Cuckoo

The Cuckoo

2002★ 7.0

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

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of t...

#4
Mon Oncle

Mon Oncle

1958★ 7.4

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

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an u...

#5
LBJ

LBJ

2017★ 6.4

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

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House....

#6
Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays

1995★ 6.2

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

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending th...