Movies like Payback
If Payback's mix of hotel, prostitute and robbery stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Payback's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Jackie Brown
1997 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 154 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: money, drugs, neo-noir · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail…
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Gone Baby Gone
2007 · Directed by Ben Affleck · 113 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: robbery, drugs, neo-noir · Also crime and drama
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro.
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The Getaway
1972 · Directed by Sam Peckinpah · 123 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: robbery, organized crime, double cross · Also action and crime
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
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Point Blank
1967 · Directed by John Boorman · 92 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: revenge, organized crime, neo-noir · Also crime and thriller
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
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The Dark Knight
2008 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 152 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: anti hero, organized crime, neo-noir · Also action and thriller
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets.
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The Wolf of Wall Street
2013 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 180 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: anti hero, money, drugs · Also crime and drama
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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Drive
2011 · Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn · 100 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: robbery, revenge, organized crime · Also drama and thriller
Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio.
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Death Sentence
2007 · Directed by James Wan · 105 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: revenge, neo-noir · Also action and crime
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…
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New Jack City
1991 · Directed by Mario Van Peebles · 101 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: heroin, drugs · Also thriller and crime · From the same decade (1990s)
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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Live by Night
2016 · Directed by Ben Affleck · 129 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: revenge, organized crime · Also action and crime
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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Layer Cake
2004 · Directed by Matthew Vaughn · 105 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: neo-noir · Also drama and thriller
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
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Year of the Dragon
1985 · Directed by Michael Cimino · 134 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: heroin · Also action and crime
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless.