Movies like Affliction
Affliction (1998) is a crime movie directed by Paul Schrader. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Dolores Claiborne (1995)
★ 7.3 · 916 votes · Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
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2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
★ 8.1 · 11,261 votes · Crime, Drama
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
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3. Let Him Go (2020)
★ 6.8 · 861 votes · Thriller, Crime, Western
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
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4. Scream (1996)
★ 7.4 · 8,317 votes · Crime, Horror, Mystery
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
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5. The Whisper Man (2026)
★ 6.9 · 917 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
When his young son vanishes, a widower enlists help from his estranged father, a retired detective who put away the serial killer now linked to the case.
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6. In Cold Blood (1967)
★ 7.5 · 459 votes · Crime, Drama
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
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7. Death Sentence (2007)
★ 6.8 · 1,324 votes · Action, Crime, Drama
Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.
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8. The Silencing (2020)
★ 6.5 · 862 votes · Thriller, Action, Crime
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
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9. Mystic River (2003)
★ 7.7 · 7,765 votes · Thriller, Drama, Mystery
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
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10. The Devil All the Time (2020)
★ 7.2 · 3,804 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
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11. At Close Range (1986)
★ 6.8 · 322 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man.
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