20 movies like This World, Then the Fireworks, ordered by similarity : The Underworld Story(1950), Violette(1978), Dolores Claiborne(1995), 711 Ocean Drive(1950), He Ran All the Way(1951), Roadblock(1951), High Sierra(1941), My Brother the Devil(2012), The Golden Glove(2019), Dirty Money(1972), The Postman Always Rings Twice(1981), Cold Moon(2016) ...
5.3/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1997
100 Minutes
Billy Zane Gina Gershon Sheryl Lee Rue McClanahan Roberta Hanley Robert Pentz Marianna Alacchi Orson Oblowitz Phil Loch Willy Cobbs Richard Edson
journalist prostitute policewoman mother gangster corrupt cop brooding hedonistic chicago california small town beach house incest scam murder prostitution fugitives siblings forbidden love temptation
In 1950s, two incestuous lovers, a depraved suave journalist and his equally depraved prostitute sister, plan to get rich through seduction and murder. Things complicate when their feeble-minded mother begins to suspect something.
6.9/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1950
89 Minutes
Dan Duryea Herbert Marshall Gale Storm Howard da Silva Michael O'Shea Mary Anderson Gar Moore Melville Cooper Frieda Inescort
journalist publisher newspaper owner gangster daughter-in-law murderer brooding intense uneasy intricate small town new england office suburbia city city hall journalism ethics gangsters murder
The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces.
7.2/10
Crime, Drama
France|Canada
1978
124 Minutes
Isabelle Huppert Stéphane Audran Jean Carmet Jean-François Garreaud Jean Dalmain Lisa Langlois François Maistre Philippe Procot Bernard Alane Mario David Henri-Jacques Huet
young woman mother father murderer frenchwoman prostitute engaging melodramatic shocking thrilling suspenseful gripping france family home prostitution dark secrets secret life poison rebellion murder plot
In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.
7.4/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1995
131 Minutes
Kathy Bates Jennifer Jason Leigh Judy Parfitt Christopher Plummer David Strathairn Eric Bogosian John C. Reilly Ellen Muth Bob Gunton Roy Cooper Wayne Robson
journalist housekeeper elderly woman detective father daughter disturbing brooding melodramatic maine small town family home police station ferry mansion murder dark secrets domestic violence mysterious past mother/daughter relationship
A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid.
6.9/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1950
102 Minutes
Edmond O'Brien Joanne Dru Otto Kruger Barry Kelley Dorothy Patrick Don Porter Howard St. John Robert Osterloh Sammy White
repairman hit man police detective gangster assistant gangster's wife brooding gripping suspenseful tense los angeles pier las vegas desert gambling horse racing blackmail murder swindling doomed romance
An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path.
7.1/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
77 Minutes
John Garfield Shelley Winters Wallace Ford Selena Royle Gladys George Norman Lloyd Bobby Hyatt Clancy Cooper Keith Hetherington Renny McEvoy Dale Van Sickel
thug young woman mother father police officer accomplice intense gripping city poolside house robbery hostages murder love escape pursuit love 1950s
Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment and he forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt.
6.7/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
73 Minutes
Charles McGraw Joan Dixon Lowell Gilmore Louis Jean Heydt Milburn Stone
insurance investigator partner beautiful woman racketeer gangster bank robber melodramatic suspenseful solemn train house office crime dangerous job bank heist opposites attract love discovery love temptation
Honest LA insurance detective Joe Peters becomes corrupt after falling in love with sensual gold-digger model Diane.
7.5/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1941
100 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Ida Lupino Alan Curtis Arthur Kennedy Joan Leslie Henry Hull Henry Travers Barton MacLane Jerome Cowan Cornel Wilde Donald MacBride
gangster ex-convict criminal girlfriend dark brooding cool california mountain sierra nevada mountains los angeles casino crime love murder heist escape fall love 1940s
After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
6.6/10
Crime, Drama
UK
2012
111 Minutes
James Floyd Saïd Taghmaoui Fady Elsayed Nasser Memarzia Ashley Thomas Letitia Wright Aymen Hamdouchi Arnold Oceng Yusra Warsama Elarica Gallacher Anthony Welsh
teen boy brother father mother gang members brutal emotional intense uneasy london united kingdom apartment house car growing up gang war forbidden love family honor discovery escape
Two teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being British Arabs growing up on the streets of gangland London.
Horror, Crime, Drama
2019
115 Minutes
Jonas Dassler Margarete Tiesel Adam Bousdoukos Marc Hosemann Katja Studt Martina Eitner-Acheampong Tristan Göbel Philipp Baltus Victoria Trauttmansdorff Hark Bohm
man serial killer murderer murder victim monster woman engaging shocking gripping suspenseful brutal thrilling germany hamburg, germany investigation serial murders fear murder danger suspicion
Crime, Drama
1972
98 Minutes
gangster man woman police chief bank robber drug smuggler thrilling emotional dark bank france nightclub train small town helicopter robbery drug smuggling law and order love triangle unusual friendship
A bank theft and a train robbery bring together a Frenchwoman (Catherine Deneuve), her criminal boyfriend (Alain Delon) and a detective (Richard Crenna).
6.6/10
Crime, Drama
West Germany|USA
1981
123 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Jessica Lange John Colicos Michael Lerner Christopher Lloyd John P. Ryan Anjelica Huston Jon Van Ness
drifter restaurant owner wife prosecutor shocking hedonistic suspenseful sultry road small town diner california infidelity lust murder plot insurance fraud marriage great depression temptation wretched excess
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
4.6/10
Crime, Drama, Horror
USA
2016
92 Minutes
Josh Stewart Candy Clark Frank Whaley Robbie Kay Christopher Lloyd Madison Wolfe Rachele Brooke Smith Laura Cayouette
murder suspect grandmother police officer ghost father brooding solemn dark tense emotional frightening small town american south murder case mysterious deaths paranormal ghosts haunting revenge mystery
From Michael McDowell, the writer of Beetlejuice (1988) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), comes a chilling tale of supernatural vengeance.
6.9/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1954
82 Minutes
mechanic race car driver femme fatale bank robber criminal brooding intense thrilling melodramatic los angeles automobile repair shop beach beach house bank bank heist con game race car driving betrayal murder unlikely romance
An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld.
7.0/10
Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Crime
Denmark|Germany|Sweden|Norway
2016
119 Minutes
Nikolaj Lie Kaas Fares Fares Johanne Louise Schmidt Søren Pilmark Jakob Oftebro Pål Sverre Hagen Lotte Andersen Signe Anastassia Mannov Laura Bro Divya Das Amanda Collin
detective investigator murder suspect murder victim criminal thrilling gripping suspenseful shocking boarding school crime scene police station denmark crime investigation murder cold case serial murders discovery mystery
Two intertwined cases linking the past with the present will require the aid of Department Q to catch an elusive serial killer, while time is running out.
6.8/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
73 Minutes
Steve Brodie Audrey Long Raymond Burr Douglas Fowley William Challee Jason Robards Sr. Freddie Steele Lee Frederick Paul E. Burns Ilka Gruning Larry Nunn
truck driver wife gangster brother private investigator detective dark gripping melodramatic tense chicago road police station wedding interrogation room warehouse fugitives ultimatum husband/wife relationship murder
A young married couple flee both police and a gangster out for revenge.
8.2/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1997
136 Minutes
Kevin Spacey Russell Crowe Guy Pearce James Cromwell David Strathairn Kim Basinger Danny DeVito Graham Beckel Simon Baker-Denny Matt McCoy John Mahon
police officer detective journalist mobster prostitute actor dark chilling suspenseful emotional coffee shop police station los angeles government building street big city corruption murder prostitution organized crime
As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
7.8/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1973
95 Minutes
Martin Sheen Sissy Spacek Warren Oates Ramon Bieri Alan Vint Gary Littlejohn John Carter Bryan Montgomery Gail Threlkeld Charles Fitzpatrick
teen girl killer father bounty hunter police officers boyfriend brooding brutal profound south dakota montana woods house highway car murder escape young love teenage rebellion forbidden love
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
7.3/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Norway
1997
99 Minutes
Stellan Skarsgård Sverre Anker Ousdal Bjørn Floberg Gisken Armand Maria Bonnevie Maria Mathiesen Thor Michael Aamodt Frode Rasmussen
detective police officer writer murderer suspect partner dark dreamy somber norway arctic beach small town insomnia murder investigation cover-up guilt accidental death fall mystery
In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting.
7.6/10
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Action, Western
USA
2016
97 Minutes
Jeff Bridges Chris Pine Ben Foster Gil Birmingham Marin Ireland Katy Mixon Dale Dickey Kevin Rankin
divorce brother son ex-convict banker texas ranger brooding raw intense texas house bank casino car office brother relationship foreclosure desperation search family
A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas.
7.8/10
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
South Korea
2009
128 Minutes
Kim Hye-ja Won Bin Ku Jin Je-mun Yun Mi-Seon Jeon Byoung-Soon Kim
mother widow son suspect police detective defense attorney dark emotional gripping small town south korea shop family home mother/son relationship murder investigation incarceration framed vigilantism love
A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.
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