20 best movies like Femme Fatale (2002)

List of the best movies like Femme Fatale (2002): Gone Girl, Sea of Love, Birthday Girl, The Farm, Hotel Noir, The Truth About Charlie, Gone, Marshland, Sleuth, Spellbound.

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Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

    With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:53

    Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

    Duration01:29

    A shy bank clerk orders a Russian mail order bride, and finds his life turned upside down.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror
    CountryUSA

    A young couple gets kidnapped and treated like farm animals after stopping at a roadside diner to eat meat.

    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: 4.7
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration01:44

    When Regina Lambert returns from a vacation to Paris, she finds not only her apartment, but also her bank account completely empty. A visit to the police headquarters reveals that Charlie has been murdered and a lot of people are after his money. Regina now begins a dangerous search for the truth.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    Jill Parrish is trying to rebuild her life after surviving a terrifying kidnapping attempt. Though she is having a difficult time, she takes small steps toward normalcy by starting a new job and inviting her sister, Molly, to move in with her. Returning home from work one morning, Jill discovers that Molly has vanished, and she is certain that the same man who previously abducted her has returned for revenge.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:45

    The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully hunt down a killer who for years has terrorized a community in the shadow of a general disregard for women rooted in a misogynistic past.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:18

    A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife’s lover – but things aren’t exactly as they seem.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:48

    The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Poland, United Kingdom
    Duration01:25

    An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany, France
    Duration02:01

    Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:06

    A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:13

    When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa visits Los Angeles to take over his murdered colleague's therapy group, he finds himself embroiled in the thick of a mystery when he bumps into Rose and begins a torrid affair.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:50

    A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration02:07

    Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:47

    A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy
    Duration01:50

    Laura and John, grieved by a terrible loss, meet in Venice, where John is in charge of the restoration of a church, two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous blonde dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers -- with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, USA, Mexico, Belgium

    An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom
    Duration02:11

    A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:29

    In Paris, the international police force and the Russian mafia are chasing Anthony Zimmer, an intelligent man responsible for laundry of dirty money in France. Zimmer had extensive plastic surgery, and his new face and voice are completely unknown. The only means to reach Zimmer is through his beloved mistress Chiara, who is under surveillance of the police and the mobsters. While traveling by train to the country nearby Nice, the common man François Taillandier, who has the same body shape of Zimmer, is select by Chiara as if he were Zimmer and used as a bait to lure those that are pursuing her. When Taillandier is chased by the professional Russian killers, he runs the French police when the real situation begins to be disclosed to him. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:21

    A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryDenmark
    Duration01:43

    Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    A teenage boy discovers the perpetrators of several brutal kidnappings in his home town.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryTurkey

    A successful man leads a happy life with his new girlfriend Ace. One day, however, Sarah, an ambitious former lover, reunites with her job offer, which she cannot refuse. The man who took his beloved Ace with him changed his city to a new job and was soon destroyed by the disappearance of Ace. Ece left a farewell video behind her, but no one heard from Ece. As soon as a person tries to fill the absence of Es with Sarah, he begins to find traces of Es all over the world. Sarah also hears voices throughout the house. They slowly embark on a path full of fear and paranoia ...

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan—with help from a bail bondsman—to keep the money for herself. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel “Rum Punch”.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance

    Based on a true story. In Léon Blum high school in Créteil (France), a history teacher decides to have her weakest 10th grade class take a national history competition. This will change them.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:29

      On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason why he should do so.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:51

      On the way to his mother’s funeral, a detective accidentally hits a person with his car. He takes the body with him and puts it into his mother’s coffin. The moment he feels relieved, he receives a call. This caller insists that he saw the detective’s hit-and-run, but instead of asking for money, he wants to know about the body’s whereabouts, leading to a do-or-die showdown of the witness and detective.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrethriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      Four small-town boys are kidnapped by James Whitley, a warm-eyed psychopath. His grotesque pursuit to reunite orphaned children with their deceased birth parents is halted when the boys escape and he is arrested. Fifteen years later Whitley flees during a prison fire and decides to see his mission through. Detective Larson, once Whitley's prior victim, is removed from the case due to impartiality leaving his partner, and lover, Detective Shotwell to solve the case. Fueled by rage and a chance of redemption, Detective Larson chases the steadfast psychopath on his own only to fall back into the same trap he once escaped as a child.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryIndia

      A couple checks into a beach resort in Mauritius late night with their three-year-old daughter Titli who in the next morning goes missing.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:44

      When you become a detective in Warsaw Indiana - you go to Poker Night, where you play against some of the best cops in the business. They tell you stories about their time on the job - their successes and failures. When new Detective Stan Jeter leaves the game, he is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement. Using the stories he heard at Poker Night, he must match wits against his captor - and save not only himself, but the young girl trapped in the basement with him. Like Seven and Usual Suspect, Poker Night combines thrills and twists and turns that will leave you guessing till the very end.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Poland
      Duration01:47

        A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryFrance, Italy
        Duration01:59

        A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecrime
        CountryAustralia

        An evocative crime thriller that captures the chilling action and sharp wit of Peter Temple's acclaimed novel The Broken Shore. In this gripping adaptation, Detective Joe Cashin uncovers a web of lies, betrayal and police corruption in a small coastal town where tensions are at boiling point and the shocking face behind the community's respectable mask is slowly unveiled.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
        Duration02:32

        A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryAustria
        Duration01:32

        The successful politician Robert is going on a romantic weekend trip with his pregnant wife Katharina as a unexpected old friend of Robert, Wolfgang, suddenly appears on the surface and starts to stalk the couple.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:46

        London, modern day: Joe, a mild mannered young man is bored by his life. When his beloved brother is murdered Joe finds solace in Piggy, one of his brother's old friends. Piggy helps Joe to cope with grief, intent on saving him and helping him get justice for his brother's killing. As their friendship grows Joe finds himself in an increasing dangerous and murky world of violence and revenge. As Joe life collapses around him he starts to question who Piggy really is, and how honest he's really been with him. When Joe confronts Piggy a series of events are put in place that lead to a disastrous climax. Written by Anonymous (IMDb.com).

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        A High school Photographer breaks his own rules and falls in love with his teenage model




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