Movies like Two Seconds
If Two Seconds's mix of death row, just married and woman between two men stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Two Seconds's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Green Mile
1999 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 189 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: death row, electric chair, capital punishment · Also drama and crime
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments.
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Scarlet Street
1945 · Directed by Fritz Lang · 103 min7.6
Why you'll like itWith Edward G. Robinson · Shares: electric chair · Also drama and crime
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook.
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Mildred Pierce
1945 · Directed by Michael Curtiz · 111 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: told in flashback · Also crime and drama
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Edward Scissorhands
1990 · Directed by Tim Burton · 105 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: flashback, told in flashback
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
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12 Angry Men
1957 · Directed by Sidney Lumet · 97 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: capital punishment
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
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Double Indemnity
1944 · Directed by Billy Wilder · 107 min8.1
Why you'll like itWith Edward G. Robinson
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Directed by Billy Wilder · 116 min8.2
Why you'll like itAlso drama and crime
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a…
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Dial M for Murder
1954 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 105 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso crime and drama
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.