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10 Best Movies Like The Element of Crime

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

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#1
Epidemic

Epidemic

1987★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Element of Crime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A director and screenwriter pen a script and, in the process, blur the line between fiction and reality....

#2
Love Streams

Love Streams

1984★ 7.2

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

Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart....

#3
Europa

Europa

1991★ 7.4

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

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him....

#4
Appropriate Behavior

Appropriate Behavior

2015★ 6.2

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

Shirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities....

#5
Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy

2008★ 6.8

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

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it....

#6
The Red and the White

The Red and the White

1967★ 7.0

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

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other....