Movies like This World, Then the Fireworks

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) ...

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This World, Then the Fireworks

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.

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The Underworld Story

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.

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Violette

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.

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Dolores Claiborne

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.

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711 Ocean Drive

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.

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He Ran All the Way

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.

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Roadblock

Honest LA insurance detective Joe Peters becomes corrupt after falling in love with sensual gold-digger model Diane.

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High Sierra

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.

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My Brother the Devil

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.

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The Golden Glove

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Dirty Money

A bank theft and a train robbery bring together a Frenchwoman (Catherine Deneuve), her criminal boyfriend (Alain Delon) and a detective (Richard Crenna).

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The Postman Always Rings Twice

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

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Cold Moon

From Michael McDowell, the writer of Beetlejuice (1988) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), comes a chilling tale of supernatural vengeance.

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Drive a Crooked Road

An upright car mechanic falls in love with the girlfriend of a gangster. This forces him to participate in the criminal underworld.

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A Conspiracy of Faith

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.

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Desperate

A young married couple flee both police and a gangster out for revenge.

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L.A. Confidential

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.

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Badlands

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

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Insomnia

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.

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Hell or High Water

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.

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Mother

A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.

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