20 movies like Dead Heat, ordered by similarity : The Departed(2006), Eastern Promises(2007), Terribly Happy(2008), The Square(2008), The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day(2009), Udta Punjab(2016), Shotgun Stories(2007), John Wick(2014), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo(2009), Debt Collectors(2020), Anything for Her(2008), Yella(2007) ...
Mystery & Thriller
Germany|Canada
2002
97 Minutes
Kiefer Sutherland Anthony LaPaglia Radha Mitchell Lothaire Bluteau Daniel Benzali Kay Panabaker Cage Taylor
cop brother mobster jockey wife brash suspenseful thrilling boston racetrack horse racing mafia theft gambling debt marital problems temptation rise underdog 2000s
A heart problem forces the cop Pally to retire, and his wife Charlotte is separating him. Charlotte makes Pally's half-brother Ray visit, and he suggest buying a race horse will cheer him up. He does, but then a mob boss steals the horse.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA|Hong Kong
2006
152 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Matt Damon Jack Nicholson Mark Wahlberg Martin Sheen Ray Winstone Vera Farmiga Alec Baldwin James Badge Dale David O'Hara Mark Rolston
mobster criminal cop informant girlfriend wife dark intense gritty tense suspenseful frightening boston police station bar vehicle city apartment secret hideout crime mafia
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK|Canada|USA
2007
100 Minutes
Viggo Mortensen Naomi Watts Vincent Cassel Armin Mueller-Stahl Sinead Cusack Donald Sumpter Jerzy Skolimowski Josef Altin Raza Jaffrey Mike Sarne Tereza Srbova
midwife prostitute slave mobster assassin uncle suspenseful gritty london restaurant hospital apartment mafia prostitution organized crime murder death deception discovery rise
A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2008
100 Minutes
Jakob Cedergren Kim Bodnia Lene Maria Christensen Lars Brygmann Anders Hove Anh Lé Jens Jørn Spottag Henrik Lykkegaard Peter Hesse Overgaard Niels Skousen Lars Lunøe
police officer thug wife townsperson abusive husband seductress bleak suspenseful amusing emotional copenhagen, denmark small town bar apartment police work mental breakdown relocation infidelity corruption quest
Following a nervous breakdown, a police officer (Jakob Cedergren) from Copenhagen pulls duty in a small town, where his big-city attitude clashes with the residents' bizarre behavior.
Mystery & Thriller
Australia
2008
105 Minutes
David Roberts Claire van der Boom Joel Edgerton Anthony Hayes Peter Phelps Bill Hunter Damon Herriman Brendan Donoghue Kieran Darcy-Smith Lucy Bell Hanna Mangan Lawrence
husband wife adulterer construction worker mobster crafty suspenseful thrilling dark australia construction site party house car running away schemes robbery unhappy marriage arson adultery
A man's life begins to unravel when his mistress brings him a bag of cash.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
USA
2009
115 Minutes
Sean Patrick Flanery Norman Reedus Judd Nelson Billy Connolly Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez Julie Benz Peter Fonda David Della Rocco Robert Cochrane Marley Jr. Brian Mahoney
brother crime boss fighter father fbi agent older brother brash intense thrilling ireland boston cargo ship house farm murder vigilantism wrongfully accused investigation brotherhood crime
The MacManus brothers are living a quiet life in Ireland with their father, but when they learn that their beloved priest has been killed by mob forces, they go back to Boston to bring justice to those responsible and avenge the priest.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
India
2016
146 Minutes
Shahid Kapoor Kareena Kapoor Alia Bhatt Diljit Dosanjh Satish Kaushik
indian drug addict drug dealer investigator young man musician amusing bleak brash suspenseful gripping thrilling india pakistan drug addiction drug trade investigation political activism politics fight for justice
A story that revolves around drug abuse in the affluent north Indian State of Punjab and how the youth there have succumbed to it en-masse resulting in a socio-economic decline.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
92 Minutes
Michael Shannon Douglas Ligon Barlow Jacobs Natalie Canerday Glenda Pannell
son brother half brother girlfriend wife older brother brooding brutal arkansas cemetery family home farm family dysfunction feud family death violence crime rivalry revenge
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|UK|China
2014
101 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Michael Nyqvist Alfie Allen Willem Dafoe Dean Winters Adrianne Palicki Omer Barnea Toby Leonard Moore Bridget Moynahan John Alberto Leguizamo Ian McShane
assassin wife mobster thug puppy fat person brooding dark intense thrilling suspenseful sad house car club office street apartment retirement murder
An ex-hit-man comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that killed his dog and took everything from him.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Sweden|Denmark|Germany|Norway
2009
152 Minutes
Michael Nyqvist Noomi Rapace Lena Endre Peter Haber Sven-Bertil Taube Peter Andersson Marika Lagercrantz Bjorn Granath Ingvar Hirdwall Per Oscarsson David Dencik
wealthy man niece journalist hacker nazi brother suspenseful brutal moving thrilling mansion island city sweden cabin office family secrets missing persons murder investigation sexual abuse
A journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2020
97 Minutes
Scott Adkins Louis Mandylor Vladimir Kulich Mayling Ng Catherine Black Josef Cannon Jermaine Jacox Mike Maolucci
debt collector partner mob boss gangsters casino owner brash confident cool fiery frenetic intense melodramatic suspenseful thrilling las vegas united states debt organized crime hired killers corruption
A pair of debt collectors are thrust into an explosively dangerous situation, chasing down various lowlifes while also evading a vengeful kingpin. -Samuel Goldwyn Films-
Crime, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|Spain
2008
96 Minutes
Vincent Lindon Diane Kruger Lancelot Roch Olivier Marchal Hammou Graïa Liliane Rovère Olivier Perrier Moussa Maaskri Rémi Martin Thierry Godard Slimane Hadjar
wife husband son police officer judge counterfeiter brash suspenseful emotional france prison house courtroom suburbia family wrongful conviction desperation jailbreak husband/wife relationship murder case
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Germany
2007
89 Minutes
Nina Hoss Devid Striesow Hinnerk Schönemann Burghart Klaußner Barbara Auer Christian Redl Wanja Mues Michael Wittenborn
estranged wife blackmailer abusive husband businessman thrilling suspenseful brooding engaging germany office car estrangement abuse blackmail schemes fall wretched excess temptation 2000s
Yella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1993
96 Minutes
Dennis Haysbert M.K. Harris Sab Shimono Mel Harris Dina Merrill David Graf Fran Ryan John Ingle
half brother murderer construction worker poor person brother thrilling suspenseful funeral hospital car airport united states switched identities murder amnesia schemes betrayal metamorphosis underdog discovery
After his brother tries to kill him, a man survives only to find himself in another man's body.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, War
USA|West Germany
1951
119 Minutes
Richard Basehart Gary Merrill Oskar Werner Hildegarde Neff Dominique Blanchar O.E. Hasse Hans Christian Blech Helene Thimig Robert Freitag George Tyne
lieutenant colonel prisoner of war spy soldier brash thrilling tense germany prison camp bavaria espionage gestapo world war ii military intelligence cooperation betrayal sacrifice adventure rise
As the US Army approaches Nazi Germany, they recruit German prisoners to spy behind German lines.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
85 Minutes
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Ida Lupino Alan Marshal Terry Kilburn George Zucco E.E. Clive Mary Gordon
sherlock holmes doctor watson nemesis beautiful woman brother crafty intricate thrilling suspenseful london tower of london 221b baker street death theft revenge investigation revenge rivalry mystery quest
The master sleuth hunts his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, who is planning the crime of the century.
Mystery & Thriller
Spain
2015
95 Minutes
Luis Tosar Goya Toledo Javier Gutiérrez Pedro Alonso Fernando Cayo Elvira Mínguez Antonio Mourelos María Mera Ricardo de Barreiro Luis Zahera
banker father child blackmailer psychopath son suspenseful thrilling intense gory brooding car street city helicopter docks bank blackmail bomb police pursuit
Breakfast, kiss to his wife, take the children to the school, a bomb under the car, one neverending day ahead.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2003
105 Minutes
Denzel Washington Eva Mendes Sanaa Lathan Dean Cain John Billingsley Robert Baker Alex Carter Antoni Corone
police chief wife mistress football player medical examiner detective tense gripping suspenseful florida police station motel household framed for murder betrayal cancer race against time arson theft mystery
A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
2006
92 Minutes
crime boss godson wife rival thug brutal frenetic suspenseful melodramatic china hong kong river office crime syndicate election jealousy corruption gang war abduction rivalry
A violent chain reaction unfolds as a crafty entrepreneur (Louis Koo) wrests power from a veteran Hong Kong crime lord (Simon Yam).
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1987
101 Minutes
Lindsay Crouse Joe Mantegna Mike Nussbaum Lilia Skala J.T. Walsh Willo Hausman Ricky Jay Meshach Taylor
psychiatrist con artist suspenseful crafty thrilling gripping united states fortune addiction psychology gambling temptation mystery love 1980s
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Adventure
UK|Czech Republic|USA|Germany|Bahamas
2006
144 Minutes
Daniel Craig Eva Green Mads Mikkelsen Judi Dench Caterina Murino Simon Abkarian Jeffrey Wright Giancarlo Giannini Ivana Milicevic Isaach De Bankolé Claudio Santamaria
spy banker terrorist femme fatale agent thrilling suspenseful confident casino bahamas south africa italy airport love interest gambling murder torture surveillance bomb pursuit
After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro.