Movies like The Defiant Ones
The Defiant Ones (1958) is a crime movie directed by Stanley Kramer. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Fast Five (2011)
★ 7.2 · 9,144 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.
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2. The Chase (1966)
★ 7.1 · 338 votes · Crime, Drama
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.
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3. Life (1999)
★ 6.7 · 919 votes · Comedy, Crime
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
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4. Becky (2020)
★ 6.3 · 770 votes · Thriller, Horror, Action
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
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5. Get Out (2017)
★ 7.6 · 19,480 votes · Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
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6. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
★ 7.7 · 1,309 votes · Crime, Drama, Mystery
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
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7. A Time to Kill (1996)
★ 7.4 · 3,128 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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8. A Perfect World (1993)
★ 7.5 · 1,960 votes · Drama, Crime, Thriller
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
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9. Some Like It Hot (1959)
★ 8.1 · 4,025 votes · Comedy, Romance, Crime
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
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10. The Fugitive (1993)
★ 7.5 · 5,012 votes · Action, Thriller, Drama
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
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11. White Heat (1949)
★ 7.7 · 565 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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12. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
★ 7.9 · 1,922 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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