Movies like Gotham
If Gotham's mix of detective, ex-wife and neo-noir stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Gotham's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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L.A. Confidential
1997 · Directed by Curtis Hanson · 138 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: detective, neo-noir · Also crime and mystery
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005 · Directed by Shane Black · 103 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: detective, neo-noir · Also crime and mystery
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training…
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Se7en
1995 · Directed by David Fincher · 127 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: detective, neo-noir · Also crime and mystery
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…
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Sexy Beast
2001 · Directed by Jonathan Glazer · 89 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: neo-noir · Also crime and thriller
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading…
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Mr. Arkadin
1955 · Directed by Orson Welles · 107 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: neo-noir · Also mystery and thriller
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy…
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Crooked House
2017 · Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner · 115 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: detective · Also mystery and crime
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
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Nighthawks
1981 · Directed by Bruce Malmuth · 99 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: neo-noir · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (1980s)
When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
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Crimes of Passion
1984 · Directed by Ken Russell · 107 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: detective · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (1980s)
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…