Movies like Layer Cake
If Layer Cake's mix of drug smuggling, hitman and kidnapping stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Layer Cake's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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GoodFellas
1990 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 145 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, drug trafficking · Also drama and crime
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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Gone Baby Gone
2007 · Directed by Ben Affleck · 113 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping, neo-noir · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (2000s)
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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Deep Cover
1992 · Directed by Bill Duke · 108 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: drug trafficking, neo-noir · Also thriller and crime
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew.
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Pulp Fiction
1994 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 154 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, neo-noir · Also thriller and crime
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper.
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Directed by Jonathan Demme · 119 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping, neo-noir · Also crime and thriller
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for…
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Jackie Brown
1997 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 154 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: neo-noir · Also crime and drama
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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Inception
2010 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 148 min8.4
Why you'll like itWith Tom Hardy · Shares: kidnapping
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the…
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Lord of War
2005 · Directed by Andrew Niccol · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: cocaine · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (2000s)
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include…
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Point Blank
1967 · Directed by John Boorman · 92 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: 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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Payback
1999 · Directed by Brian Helgeland · 100 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: neo-noir · Also drama and crime
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think.
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A Working Man
2025 · Directed by David Ayer · 116 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping · Also crime and thriller
Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss's daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to…
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Luther: The Fallen Sun
2023 · Directed by Jamie Payne · 129 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping · Also crime and thriller
A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break…