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Movies that feel like Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

If you loved Joker: Folie à Deux, the closest films we have are Tuner (2026), The Traitor (2019) and Nightmare Alley (2021). All three share Joker: Folie à Deux's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.

🍅 31% Rotten Tomatoes5.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Todd Phillipscontemplativegrittytenseromantic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Joker (2019)

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Tuner
2026 · dir. Daniel Roher
🍅 94%7.2crime · drama · thriller

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A talented piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.

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The Traitor
2019 · dir. Marco Bellocchio
🍅 86%7.1drama · crime · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: 1980s

The difference: None of the romance Joker: Folie à Deux is built on

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

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Nightmare Alley
2021 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 80%7crime · drama · thriller

Tense and romantic in the same breath

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

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Emily the Criminal
2022 · dir. John Patton Ford
🍅 93%6.7crime · drama · thriller

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level.

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The Secret Agent
2025 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
7.2thriller · drama · crime

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

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The Wild Goose Lake
2019 · dir. Diao Yinan
🍅 91%6.7crime · drama · thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

A gangster ends up making a mistake that causes every gun on both sides of the law to point at him. While on the run, he comes across a mysterious woman who might get him out of trouble or make things worse.

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Holy Spider
2022 · dir. Ali Abbasi
🍅 82%7.3thriller · drama · crime

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

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Hyena
2015 · dir. Gerard Johnson
🍅 78%6.2crime · drama · thriller

Gritty crime in both cases

Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?

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The Devil All the Time
2020 · dir. Antonio Campos
🍅 65%7.1crime · drama · thriller

Different title, same corner of the shelf

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

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The Guilty
2018 · dir. Gustav Möller
🍅 98%7.5thriller · drama · crime

Both working the same drama territory

Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.

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Good Time
2017 · dir. Josh Safdie
🍅 91%7.3crime · thriller · drama

Crime in the same key

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.

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Carlito's Way
1993 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 84%7.9crime · drama · thriller

Romantic thriller in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

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