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Movies that feel like Night Moves (1975)

If you loved Night Moves, the closest films we have are The Long Good Friday (1980), Le Samouraï (1967) and Shoot the Piano Player (1960). All three share Night Moves's tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and TCM and others, checked against today's data.

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

🍅 78% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Arthur Penntensegrittycontemplativeatmospheric
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The Long Good Friday
1980 · dir. John Mackenzie
🍅 97%7.5crime · thriller · drama

Both built around neo-noir

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

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Le Samouraï
1967 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 92%8crime · thriller · drama

Neo-noir sits at the heart of each

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

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Shoot the Piano Player
1960 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 90%7.4drama · thriller · crime

Tense and gritty in the same breath

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

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One False Move
1992 · dir. Carl Franklin
🍅 93%7.1crime · drama · thriller

The same mix in both: stillness, then atmosphere

Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.

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Blast of Silence
1961 · dir. Allen Baron
🍅 83%7.4crime · drama · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.

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Le Doulos
1962 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 96%7.7drama · thriller · crime

Both trade on grit more than on being crime

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?

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Touch of Evil
1958 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 96%8crime · thriller · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.

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Odd Man Out
1947 · dir. Carol Reed
🍅 100%7.6crime · drama · thriller

Thriller built on atmosphere, twice over

The difference: 28 years apart, and the 1940s show

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

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The Rivals of Amziah King
2026 · dir. Andrew Patterson
🍅 89%7.7crime · drama · thriller

Tense crime, and it commits to that

Deep within the backwoods of rural Oklahoma, charismatic and musically gifted Amziah King herds a bluegrass-playing band of misfits while overseeing the premier honey-making operation in town. When Amziah’s estranged foster daughter unexpectedly returns, Amziah leaps at the possibility to renew connection and create a family business. But the honey game is ruthless, and Amziah’s rivals threaten to destroy everything he has built.

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Point Blank
1967 · dir. John Boorman
🍅 93%7.3crime · thriller · drama

Drama built on grit, twice over

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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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973 · dir. Peter Yates
🍅 98%7.4crime · drama · thriller

Both trade on stillness more than on being thriller

The difference: Missing the atmosphere of Night Moves

An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.

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Charley Varrick
1973 · dir. Don Siegel
🍅 82%7.5crime · thriller · drama

Cut from the same thriller cloth

Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.

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