Movies like Compulsion
If Compulsion's mix of death penalty, police and philosophy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Compulsion's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Rope
1948 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 81 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: philosophy, suspenseful, superiority · Also thriller and crime
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
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Primal Fear
1996 · Directed by Gregory Hoblit · 130 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: death penalty, lawyer, suspenseful · Also crime and drama
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago.
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The Rainmaker
1997 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 135 min7.0
Why you'll like itWith Dean Stockwell · Shares: lawyer, courtroom · Also drama and crime
Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim.
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Just Mercy
2019 · Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton · 137 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: death penalty, lawyer · Also drama and crime
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence…
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The Batman
2022 · Directed by Matt Reeves · 177 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: police, suspenseful · Also crime and thriller
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
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Fallen
1998 · Directed by Gregory Hoblit · 124 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: police · Also crime and drama
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
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The Pelican Brief
1993 · Directed by Alan J. Pakula · 141 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: suspenseful · Also thriller and crime
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itAlso drama and crime
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.