20 best movies like Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1982)

List of the best movies like Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1982): Cartels, 1922, Cut Bank, One for the Money, Shot Caller, By the Gun, Wicked Blood, Misconduct, Rushlights, Cheap Thrills.

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Markimdb: 3.7
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA, Monaco, Romania
Duration02:01

An elite team of DEA agents are assigned to protect a dangerous drug lord and take refuge in a luxury hotel while they await extraction. They soon find themselves at the center of an ambush as the drug lord's former associates launch an explosive assault on the hotel.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:35

A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

25 year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in moton a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

An unemployed lingerie buyer convinces her bail bondsman cousin to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former cop on the run for murder – the same man who broke her heart years before. With the help of some friends and the best bounty hunter in the business, she slowly learns what it takes to be a true bounty hunter.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

A rising Boston gangster (Ben Barnes) endangers those around him when he starts to make moves without the knowledge of his boss (Harvey Keitel).

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

Hannah and Amber Baker are trapped in a dark Southern underworld of violence, drugs and bikers. Both live in fear of their "Uncle Frank" Stinson, the ruthless leader of a crime organization.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:42

An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA

Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

    Recently fired and facing eviction, a new dad has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, documentary, crime, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:39

    It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. Disoriented and quivering with fear, he divulges his shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not what it seems. Sure, he has the same tattoos, but he looks decidedly different, and he now speaks with a strange accent. Why doesn't the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It's only when an investigator starts asking questions that this astounding true story takes an even stranger turn.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
    Duration02:27

    Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict Jericho Stewart. When he wakes up with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and eliminate him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise toughness, makes him an unstoppable force - and the mayor's worst nightmare.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:07

    A madman captures a young boy and rigs him with explosives. Ray Fitzpatrick, still haunted by the loss of his own son, will defy orders to stop the clock and save a life

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
    Duration01:56

    The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Captured international assassins are locked up inside a high-tech bunker known as the Killing Chamber. To break out of this concrete hell they must duel each other, fight deadly ninjas and battle against gangs of masked maniacs. And... if they survive this, they will have to confront Snakehead: the lethal, deranged top dog who will stop at nothing to kill 'em all!

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA

    Brian Barnes (Johnny Messner) wakes up in the desert wounded and with no memory and no idea why he's surrounded by eight bodies, a van with four million in cash and a van full of cocaine. Brian is pursued by not only notorious drug lord Danny Perez (Danny Trejo) who desperately want his money back, and DEA Agent Rooker (Dolph Lundgren), but also a by the corrupt Sheriff Olson (Michael Pare) who will stop at nothing to get his hand on the new found fortune. On the run, Brian discovers the more he remembers the less he wants to know about who he really is.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:01

    A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA, China, France, Canada, Russia
    Duration01:56

    Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:15

    Sexy New York detective and single mother Harlee Santos fell in with a tight-knit group of dirty cops, taking bribes and protection money that she uses to provide the best life for her honest, talented daughter. But when she's trapped by the FBI and forced to inform on her own "brothers," she'll have to walk the fine line between love, loyalty, honor and betrayal, and try to keep it together for her daughter's future.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

      Sandra is the manager at a fast-food restaurant, and Becky is her teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day, a police officer telephones and accuses Becky of stealing money from a customer’s purse, which Becky vehemently denies. Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officer’s orders to detain Becky, beginning a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience, prudence, legality and reason.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:35

      After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:31

      A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant travels across Los Angeles to unravel the mystery, she must stay one step ahead of a determined policeman and confront her own understanding of friendship, truth and celebrity.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:08

      Two strangers find their lives colliding in an impossible way. Alex is a methodical cargo thief working for a dangerous cartel. Sam is a determined paramedic trying to save the world while running from her past.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      When Grace is accused of playing a role in a deadly accident, her best friend reaches out from beyond the grave to unveil the truth behind what happened.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryBulgaria, USA
      Duration02:23

      A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      After crashing his car, a cop who's recovering from eye surgery recruits an Uber driver to help him catch a heroin dealer. The mismatched pair soon find themselves in for a wild day of stakeouts and shootouts as they encounter the city's seedy side.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      Detroit gun runner Rich works to sniff out a traitor in his midst after being targeted by the FBI and having barely surviving a weapons deal gone awry. Rich was all set to unload a serious supply of firepower when the bullets started to fly, and Angel saved his life. Later, as the investigation heats up, Rich's lover and supplier Gabriella starts getting paranoid. When Gabriella too finds herself on the bad end of a botched exchange, the stage is set for a shocking revelation that will rock the entire Detroit underworld.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Small-town detective Noah Cordin is called to solve a juvenile homicide that occurred during a home burglary in his affluent town of Hilliard. The dead boy's mother, Allison Connor, is a member of the Meskada County Board of Commissioners, and a powerful woman in Hilliard; and the entire township rallies together in solidarity - to support her and Detective Cordin's efforts to find the killers.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:31

      Battling insomnia and undiagnosed PTSD, a war veteran works nights as a projectionist at a decrepit theater. While struggling to adapt to civilian life, he soon finds himself tangled in an inescapable web of seduction, addiction, and violence.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman for criminals discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game, Hangman.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:19

      After arguing with his girlfriend, Ali, Tyler lands in the arms of sexy new girl, Holly. The next morning, he finds that not only does Ali agree to take him back, but Holly is a new student at their school and is dead set on her new man.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration01:35

      A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
      CountryUSA

      Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      Three friends on a wilderness excursion must outrun a white collar criminal hellbent on retrieving his cash, but soon their greed turns them against each other. A modern re-telling of Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, a young executive conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:36

      A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryFrance, Cyprus, Belgium, Lebanon, USA
      Duration02:23

      After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrethriller, crime
      CountryUSA

      An inventive and resourceful cocaine smuggler defends his trade against violent rival traffickers, a monstrous and vengeful killer, and the DEA agents who want to lock him up – all while falling for a stunningly beautiful woman with a taste for danger.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      A former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to alter his plans and commit one more job for the man who financed his release.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:01

      After the deadbeat brother of a businessman is assumed to be in on his own kidnapping, his sibling must take action to rescue him.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA

      Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySpain, USA
      Duration01:39

      A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.




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