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10 Best Movies Like The Thief

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

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#1
A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

2019★ 6.1

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

The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer ...

#2
Tangerines

Tangerines

2013★ 7.7

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

War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced t...

#3
Firelight

Firelight

1998★ 6.7

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

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child....

#4
Dear Wendy

Dear Wendy

2005★ 5.8

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

In a blue-collar American town, a group of teens bands together to form the Dandies, a gang of gunslingers led by Dick Dandelion. Following a code of strict pacifism at odds with t...

#5
LX 2048

LX 2048

2020★ 5.1

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

In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dysto...

#6
What Shall Become of You

What Shall Become of You

1984★ 6.2

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

A 12 year-old street kid in a slum of Berlin struggles to stay afloat through a commitment to his compassionate teacher and ambivalent classmates, aged 11-14, who also bear the har...