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10 Best Movies Like The Up and Comer

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

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#1
Reasonable Doubt

Reasonable Doubt

2014★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Up and Comer for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the body and b...

#2
Fracture

Fracture

2007★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Up and Comer for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are su...

#3
Deception

Deception

2008★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Up and Comer for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic law...

#4
Chief of Station

Chief of Station

2024★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Up and Comer for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a co...

#5
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

2021★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Up and Comer for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the F...

#6
The Specialist

The Specialist

1994★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Up and Comer for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her p...

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