20 movies like Yella, ordered by similarity : Official Secrets(2019), Love the Hard Way(2001), Anything for Her(2008), Rapt(2009), Postmark for Danger(1955), Gone Girl(2014), Drishyam(2013), Fair Game(2010), Holiday(2014), The Naked Edge(1961), Death of a Cyclist(1955), Retribution(2015) ...
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, Drama
UK|USA|Switzerland|China
2019
112 Minutes
Keira Knightley Matt Smith Matthew Goode Rhys Ifans Adam Bakri Ralph Fiennes Indira Varma Conleth Hill MyAnna Buring Hattie Morahan Tamsin Greig
george w. bush intelligence officer homeland security officer national security advisor blackmailer chilling intricate brooding engaging government offices washington, d.c. england iraq war blackmail intelligence government secrets rivalry discovery pursuit 2000s
The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Romance
USA
2001
110 Minutes
Adrien Brody Charlotte Ayanna Jon Seda August Diehl Pam Grier Katherine Moennig Michaela Conlin Joey Kern Sara Klingebiel Francisco Lorite Dave Simonds
student blackmailer police officer businessman actress partner gritty dark new york city columbia university hotel apartment restaurant unlikely romance blackmail con game impersonation jealousy love fall
New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
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.
Drama
2009
125 Minutes
Yvan Attal Anne Consigny André Marcon Françoise Fabian Alex Descas Michel Voïta Gerard Meylan Christophe Kourotchkine Maxime Lefrancois
industrialist wife kidnapper mistress police officer executive tense thrilling paris apartment office hideout kidnapping ransom adultery business gambling schemes fall wretched excess
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|USA
1955
84 Minutes
Terry Moore Robert Beatty William Sylvester Geoffrey Keen Josephine Griffin Allan Cuthbertson Henry Oscar William Lucas
actress artist diamond smugglers blackmailer murder suspect killer melodramatic brooding tense suspenseful engaging intense england murder blackmail crime syndicate alibi diamond smuggling father/daughter relationship discovery
A woman's painted portrait and a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle are the main clues used by the Scotland Yard to solve a string of murders connected to a diamond-smuggling ring.
Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2014
149 Minutes
Ben Affleck Rosamund Pike Neil Patrick Harris Tyler Perry Kim Dickens Patrick Fugit Carrie Coon David Clennon Lisa Banes Missi Pyle Emily Ratajkowski
writer wife suspect police officer journalist police detective brooding dark intense bleak thrilling disheartening carthage house street police station car office disappearance illusions
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
India
2013
164 Minutes
Mohanlal Meena Kalabhavan Shajon Siddique Roshan Basheer Irshad Kunchan Baiju V.K. Ansiba Hassan Esther Asha Sarath
cable installer operator wife daughter police officer husband gripping brutal intense incredible thrilling moving india village house police station bus station bus protection family relationships
A man goes to extreme lengths to save his family from punishment after the family commits an accidental crime.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|United Arab Emirates
2010
107 Minutes
Naomi Watts Sean Penn Sam Shepard Ty Burrell David Andrews Brooke Smith Noah Emmerich Bruce McGill Michael Kelly Liraz Charchi Khaled Nabawy
cia agent wife husband writer diplomat government official thrilling tense suspenseful washington, d.c. new york city government offices city home secret identity journalism corruption leaked information chase betrayal
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
India
2014
161 Minutes
Akshay Kumar Sonakshi Sinha Govinda Dipendra Sharma Anchal Singh Sumeet Raghvan Freddy Daruwala Chirag Sethi Aashin A. Shah
man secret agent terrorist military officer enemy suspenseful thrilling shocking brooding gory brutal bus mumbai, india terrorism bomb explosion adventure discovery revenge pursuit
A military officer uses his intellect and fighting skills to hunt and knock down a terrorist aiming to rip apart Mumbai via the sleeper cells under his command.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1961
99 Minutes
Gary Cooper Deborah Kerr Eric Portman Diane Cilento Hermione Gingold Peter Cushing Michael Wilding Ronald Howard Ray McAnally Sandor Eles Wilfrid Lawson
suspect employee business partner wife blackmailer husband engaging suspenseful office courtroom household blackmail murder case husband/wife relationship investigation false accusations quest mystery 1960s
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
Drama
Spain|Italy
1955
87 Minutes
Lucía Bosé Manuel Alexandre Emilio Alonso Manuel Arbó Carlos Casaravilla Antonio Casas Carmen Castellanos Alberto Closas Bruna Corra Julia Delgado Caro Margarita Espinosa
professor socialite husband wealthy man mother blackmailer brooding uneasy somber suspenseful madrid university road church party spain hit-and-run infidelity blackmail guilt
A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
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
USA|Canada
2005
93 Minutes
Lucas Black Peter Coyote Mia Maestro Lesley Ann Warren Michael Ironside Ben Cardinal Kristen Bell Xander Berkeley Jason Cerbone Dee Snider
hitchhiker crime boss wife husband partner police officer dark tense thrilling pacific northwest truck stop hotel lake deception murder adultery car crash car theft schemes wretched excess
A drifter comes to the town of Deepwater and is seduced into a twisted game of deceit and murder.
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
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, Crime, Drama
USA
2007
121 Minutes
Kevin Costner Demi Moore Dane Cook William Hurt Marg Helgenberger Ruben Santiago-Hudson Danielle Panabaker Aisha Hinds Lindsay Crouse Jason Lewis Reiko Aylesworth
serial killer protégé businessman daughter wife detective suspenseful dark portland, ore. palo alto, calif. office house murder mistaken identity family police work pursuit wretched excess temptation 2000s
A well-respected businessman is sometimes controlled by his murder and mayhem-loving alter ego.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Italy|France
2015
130 Minutes
Pierfrancesco Favino Elio Germano Claudio Amendola Alessandro Borghi Greta Scarano Giulia Gorietti Antonello Fassari Jean-Hugues Anglade Alessandro Bernardini Michele Bevilacqua Nazzareno Bomba
gangster mafia boss politician prostitute corrupt businessman dead person suspenseful thrilling brooding profound spectacular rome corruption abuse of power sex murder drugs prostitution rescue rivalry
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
USA
1971
103 Minutes
Clint Eastwood Harry Guardino Reni Santoni John Larch Andrew Robinson John Vernon John Mitchum Mae Mercer
police officer psychopath victim mayor clint eastwood gritty suspenseful thrilling san francisco school bus police station secret hideout crime scene kidnapping murder robbery suicide surveillance rebellion
When a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath.
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Poland
2012
100 Minutes
Richard Gere Tim Roth Susan Sarandon Brit Marling Evelina Turen Monica Raymund Laetitia Casta Nate Parker
businessman wife daughter colleague police detective mistress striking suspenseful new york city household office shady dealings wealth suspicion unlikely allies family relationships wretched excess fall 2010s
A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
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.