Movies like Blood Simple
If Blood Simple's mix of boss, texas and lover stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Blood Simple's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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No Country for Old Men
2007 · Directed by Joel Coen · 122 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Joel Coen · Shares: texas, neo-noir · Also crime and thriller
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail.
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The Getaway
1972 · Directed by Sam Peckinpah · 123 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: texas, double cross, neo-noir · Also crime and drama
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
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Killer Joe
2012 · Directed by William Friedkin · 102 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: texas, money, neo-noir · Also crime and thriller
A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.
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Sicario
2015 · Directed by Denis Villeneuve · 122 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: texas, neo-noir · Also crime and thriller
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
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Out of the Past
1947 · Directed by Jacques Tourneur · 97 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: double cross · Also crime and thriller
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
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Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Directed by Arthur Penn · 111 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: texas · Also crime and drama
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow, and together they start a violent crime spree throughout the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
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Psycho
1960 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 109 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: money, private detective
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
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The Long Goodbye
1973 · Directed by Robert Altman · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: neo-noir · Also drama and crime
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
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Bound
1996 · Directed by Lilly Wachowski · 105 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: neo-noir · Also drama and thriller
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted…
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A Perfect Murder
1998 · Directed by Andrew Davis · 107 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: extramarital affair · Also crime and thriller
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his…