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Movies that feel like Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)

If you loved Thriller: A Cruel Picture, the closest films we have are Gone in 60 Seconds (1974), The Street Fighter (1974) and Across 110th Street (1972). All three share Thriller: A Cruel Picture's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bo Arne Vibeniuskinetictensegrittydreadunsettlingcontemplative

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Gone in 60 Seconds
1974 · dir. H.B. Halicki
🍅 43%6.3action · crime · thriller

The same mix in both: momentum, then tension

The difference: Without the same dread

Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the fastback, codenamed "Eleanor", in Long Beach, he is unaware that his boss has tipped off the police after a business dispute.

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The Street Fighter
1974 · dir. Shigehiro Ozawa
6.9action · crime · thriller

Gritty where it counts, contemplative underneath

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.

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Across 110th Street
1972 · dir. Barry Shear
🍅 85%7action · crime · drama

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

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Wait Until Dark
1967 · dir. Terence Young
🍅 96%7.7thriller · crime · horror

Both land dread and unease at once

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

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The Girl Who Killed Her Parents
2021 · dir. Maurício Eça
5.9crime · drama · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: 48 years apart, and the 2020s show

Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents Daniel Cravinhos's point of view of the events that led to the death of Marísia and Manfred von Richthofen, his girlfriend’s parents.

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Lady Snowblood
1973 · dir. Toshiya Fujita
🍅 100%7.6action · crime · drama

Both are working the same pair: revenge, rape and revenge

A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.

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The Nameless
1999 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 20%5.8thriller · mystery · horror

One thread runs through both: rape

The difference: Leans further into mystery

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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Branded to Kill
1967 · dir. Seijun Suzuki
🍅 100%7.2thriller · crime · action

Both lean on grit more than on crime

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

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The Cremator
1969 · dir. Juraj Herz
🍅 89%8horror · drama · crime

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

The difference: Played as comedy first

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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Rolling Thunder
1977 · dir. John Flynn
🍅 82%6.9drama · thriller · action

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 · dir. Kinji Fukasaku
7.4crime · action · drama

Both lean on momentum more than on action

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

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