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10 Best Movies Like The Grifters

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

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#1
The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle

1950★ 7.5

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

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in t...

#2
Confidence

Confidence

2003★ 6.3

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

What Jake Vig doesn't know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting Lionel Dolby with the help of ...

#3
The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes

1971★ 6.1

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

Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't k...

#4
Robbery

Robbery

1967★ 6.5

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

In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash....

#5
The Man Who Wasn't There

The Man Who Wasn't There

2001★ 7.5

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

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a...

#6
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Grifters 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...

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