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Movies Like The Swindle

If you loved The Swindle's Drama and Crime storytelling, these films deliver a similar experience — carefully selected for tone, themes, and emotional depth. Each pick includes where to watch it right now.

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The Damned Don't Cry
7.0

The Damned Don't Cry

1950

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

Shadow of the Thin Man
7.0

Shadow of the Thin Man

1941

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

Song of the Thin Man
6.7

Song of the Thin Man

1947

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

Mr. Lucky
6.9

Mr. Lucky

1943

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

Plunder Road
6.9

Plunder Road

1957

A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

Things Change
6.1

Things Change

1988

Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!

Each Dawn I Die
6.8

Each Dawn I Die

1939

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

The Quiller Memorandum
5.8

The Quiller Memorandum

1966

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

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Heartbreakers
6.1

Heartbreakers

2001

Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city and the next easy mark.

Another Thin Man
7.1

Another Thin Man

1939

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

Framed
6.4

Framed

1947

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.

Machine Gun McCain
6.0

Machine Gun McCain

1969

After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new employer, he retaliates with a high stakes Las Vegas casino heist that erupts into all-out war on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Neither blood, nor lust, nor wedding vows can come between McCain and his money ... or his machine gun.

How to Rob a Bank
5.8

How to Rob a Bank

2007

Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.

Maniac
6.1

Maniac

1963

When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

They Live by Night
6.9

They Live by Night

1949

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

LaRoy, Texas
6.9

LaRoy, Texas

2024

Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.

The Glass Key
6.6

The Glass Key

1942

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Last Night of Amore
7.1

Last Night of Amore

2023

On the night before retirement, police lieutenant Amore is called to investigate the off-duty death of his longtime partner, who fell prey of an illegal scheme Amore himself was secretly part of.

Bitter Rice
7.5

Bitter Rice

1949

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.

TalhotBlond
6.3

TalhotBlond

2012

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

Why These Movies Are Similar

These recommendations share core qualities with The Swindle (1955): Drama and Crime themes, similar narrative structure, and comparable emotional depth. NoBadPicks uses a combination of TMDB collaborative filtering, genre matching, and AI analysis to surface films most likely to resonate with fans of The Swindle.

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