20 movies like The Good Thief, ordered by similarity : The Departed(2006), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans(2009), The Long Good Friday(1980), Legend(2015), Death Toll(2008), The Frightened Man(1952), Eastern Promises(2007), The Lookout(2007), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie(1976), Skin Traffik(2015), Ocean's Thirteen(2007), La Balance(1982) ...
Crime, Drama
France|UK|Ireland|Canada|USA
2002
108 Minutes
Nick Nolte Tcheky Karyo Saïd Taghmaoui Gérard Darmon Emir Kusturica Marc Lavoine Ouassini Embarek Mark Polish Michael Polish Nutsa Kukhianidze Patricia Kell
thief junkie informant prostitute computer programmer twin gritty tense suspenseful monte carlo, monaco casino french riviera heist crime addiction gambling con game quest discovery 2000s
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
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.
Crime, Drama
USA
2009
121 Minutes
Nicolas Cage Eva Mendes Val Kilmer Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner Fairuza Balk Shawn Hatosy Jennifer Coolidge Tom Bower Vondie Curtis-Hall Irma P. Hall Denzel Whitaker
lieutenant drug addict father police chief client prostitute disturbing intense gritty new orleans house apartment police station addiction moral dilemma hard times crime police work murder investigation fall
Terence McDonagh is a drug- and gambling-addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants.
Crime, Drama
1980
114 Minutes
Bob Hoskins Helen Mirren Eddie Constantine Dave King Bryan Marshall Derek Thompson Bruce Alexander Paul Barber Pierce Brosnan Charles Cork Billy Cornelius
crime boss girlfriend mobster intense suspenseful london car apartment pub casino organized crime business betrayal ambition fall rivalry transformation mystery 1970s
A Cockney crime czar (Bob Hoskins) and his mistress (Helen Mirren) answer a threat on the eve of his big deal with a U.S. mobster (Eddie Constantine).
Crime, Biography, Drama
UK|France|USA
2015
131 Minutes
Tom Hardy Emily Browning David Thewlis Taron Egerton Christopher Eccleston Chazz Palminteri Tara Fitzgerald Paul Bettany Colin Morgan Paul Anderson Stephen Lord
twin gangster police detective robber murderer girlfriend brash confident intense london police station bar restaurant street car twins crime power money greed
Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2008
80 Minutes
police officer crime boss criminal brutal tense suspenseful thrilling new orleans united states crime murder saving the town crime prevention crime ring law enforcement fall quest 2000s
New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the "Murder Capital of the Country." Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1952
69 Minutes
Dermot Walsh Barbara Murray Charles Victor John Blythe Michael Ward Thora Hird John Horsley Annette Simmonds Martin Benson
junk dealer son jewel thief inspector criminal gang leader brooding suspenseful tense intense engaging gritty england father/son relationship jewelry theft failing career life after college raids disapproval discovery
Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from its day in 1897, until he dies, some time after ... See full summary »
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, Crime, Drama
USA
2007
99 Minutes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Jeff Daniels Carla Gugino Matthew Goode Isla Fisher Alex Borstein Morgan Kelly Bruce McGill
janitor con artist bank robber blind person deputy girlfriend gritty suspenseful tense bank small town restaurant heist memory deception exploitation quest temptation 2000s
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Crime, Drama
USA
1976
109 Minutes
Ben Gazzara Timothy Agoglia Carey Seymour Cassel Azizi Johari Meade Roberts Alice Friedland Donna Gordon Morgan Woodward
club owner mobster stripper singer bookie thug dark gritty emotional intense hollywood, calif. strip club chinatown restaurant backstage casino moral dilemma debt gambling addiction murder
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
Action, Crime, Drama
UK
2015
97 Minutes
Daryl Hannah Mickey Rourke Eric Roberts Dominique Swain Michael Madsen Jeff Fahey Gary Daniels Alan Ford
hitman assassin villain criminal gang leader gang members gangster gangsters pimp brutal dark intense intricate tense city united states california los angeles crime fighting
HITMAN for hire Bradley decides to turn his back on killing for a living and drops out of society, But, when he encounters a savage pimp and a desperate woman in the London suburbs under ... See full summary »
Comedy, Crime, Drama
USA
2007
122 Minutes
George Clooney Brad Pitt Matt Damon Andy Garcia Al Pacino Ellen Barkin Don Cheadle Bernie Mac Casey Affleck Scott Caan Eddie Jemison
con artist thief mastermind wife celebrity rival witty amusing thrilling playful suspenseful casino las vegas mexico big city hotel friendship con game diamond seduction
Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist after casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses one of the original eleven, Reuben Tishkoff.
Crime, Drama
France
1982
104 Minutes
Nathalie Baye Philippe Léotard Richard Berry Christophe Malavoy Jean-Paul Connart Bernard Freyd Tcheky Karyo Maurice Ronet
pimp prostitute police officer police detective kingpin informant suspenseful gritty melodramatic tense paris slum france household street police station prostitution drug trade organized crime informing
Police compel a couple of criminals to become its informants.
Crime, Drama, Action
France
2004
105 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Gérard Depardieu André Dussollier Roschdy Zem Valeria Golino Daniel Duval Catherine Marchal Francis Renaud Guy Lecluyse Alain Figlarz Vincent Moscato
police officer partner boss criminal gangster suspenseful emotional intense paris police station france street car apartment promotion robbery investigation sabotage competition crime
2 cops are promised by the retiring chief of the Paris police that the one, getting the violent gang robbing armored trucks, will get his job. The 2 will do whatever it takes to get the promotion, even if it means breaking the law.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1971
104 Minutes
Gene Hackman Fernando Rey Roy Scheider Tony Lo Bianco Marcel Bozzuffi Frédéric de Pasquale Bill Hickman Ann Rebbot Harold Gary Arlene Farber Eddie Egan
detective cop drug dealer drug smuggler engaging tense suspenseful new york city brooklyn, n.y. car showdown crime dangerous assignment drugs quest pursuit mystery 1970s
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
Crime, Drama
France|Italy
2009
154 Minutes
Tahar Rahim Niels Arestrup Adel Bencherif Hichem Yacoubi Reda Kateb Antoine Basler Gilles Cohen Pascal Henault Foued Nassah Jean-Emmanuel Pagni
convict mobster prisoner engaging gripping tense france prison crime ambition murder organized crime prison racism growing up discovery rivalry rise 2000s
A young Algerian man is sent to a French prison.
Comedy, Action, Crime, Drama
UK|USA|France
2008
114 Minutes
Gerard Butler Tom Wilkinson Thandie Newton Mark Strong Idris Elba Tom Hardy Toby Kebbell Jeremy Piven Chris "Ludacris" Bridges Karel Roden
mobster hustler rock star politician producer accountant gritty thrilling intense london construction site apartment pub corruption real estate scam drug addiction crime quest rivalry
When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, drawing in the entire London underworld into a feeding frenzy at a time when the old criminal regime is losing turf to a wealthy foreign mob.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2014
117 Minutes
Jake Gyllenhaal Rene Russo Bill Paxton Riz Ahmed Ann Cusack Kevin Rahm Michael Hyatt Viviana Chavez Chad Guerrero Kathleen York
scavenger thief cameraman director friend police detective brooding dark intense los angeles highway car newsroom office police station accident ambition voyeurism money crime
When Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.
Action, Crime, Drama
USA
1981
122 Minutes
James Caan Tuesday Weld Willie Nelson James Belushi Robert Prosky Tom Signorelli Dennis Farina Nick Nickeas
thief girlfriend gangster criminal gripping tense chicago los angeles bar car dealership heist crime one last job dangerous assignment aspirations wretched excess quest escape 1980s
A former ace safe-cracker is trying to go straight--if he can score one last big heist for the mob.
Crime, Drama
USA
1980
121 Minutes
Gena Rowlands John Adames Buck Henry Julie Carmen Lupe Garnica Jessica Castillo Tom Noonan Ronald Maccone
woman retiree female gangster gangster young boy victim engaging thrilling suspenseful intense shocking emotional united states new york city gangsters fear past crimes crime syndicate crime witness adventure
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
France
1955
120 Minutes
Jean Servais Carl Mohner Robert Manuel Magali Noël Janine Darcey Marie Sabouret Robert Hossein Marcel Lupovici
thief gangster girlfriend police officer safecracker gritty suspenseful thrilling paris apartment hideout shop heist crime love triangle pursuit temptation fall 1950s
Four men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes...