20 best movies like Greed (1924)


List of the best movies like Greed (1924): Bad Day at Black Rock, Frontera, Possessed, Leave Her to Heaven, No Country for Old Men, Compulsion, A Single Shot, Child of God, The House on Telegraph Hill, Midnighters.

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Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, western
CountryUSA

After crossing the border illegally for work, Miguel, a hard-working father and devoted husband, finds himself wrongfully accused of murdering a former sheriff’s wife. After learning of his imprisonment, Miguel’s pregnant wife tries to come to his aid and lands in the hands of corrupt coyotes who hold her for ransom. Dissatisfied with the police department’s investigation, the former sheriff tries to uncover the truth about his wife’s death and discovers disturbing evidence that will destroy one family’s future, or tear another’s apart.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife's insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, western, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

    Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.

    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: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, he descends to the level of a cave dweller and falls deeper into crime and degradation.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time to try and make peace with himself and his entourage, and even finds romance. Gale, whose life is spiraling down because of his obsession towards Booth, will bring himself on the very edge of sanity. At he end of the week, both men will find themselves on a collision course with each other.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:30

    When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance.

    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: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Ad executive Bill Compton confronts and murders his daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend. Wandering into a local bar, Bill encounters a drunken, bigoted factory worker with a bloodlust, Joe Curran. When Bill confesses the murder to Joe, the two strike up an uneasy alliance, leading to a wild adventure.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    The intriguing relationship between three desperados, who try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    Led by their fellow preppie friend Joe Hunt, a group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establish a get rich quick scam that turns deadly.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:22

    A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:20

    JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, western, crime
    CountryMexico, USA
    Duration01:52

    An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, adventure, western, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, Mexico, USA
    Duration02:01

    When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA
    Duration02:11

    19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, adventure, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
    Duration02:05

    A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA, Belgium
    Duration01:36

    A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with acid. Soon, mysterious crimes plague the Paris Opera House, blamed on a legendary "phantom".

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:42

    Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men (Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo) react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

      Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      A gritty coming of age thriller about a young girl sent to juvenile prison for the murder of her abusive step father. The film follows Anna Nix's journey into the dark world of an all girls jail where she discovers complex relationships, drugs, mental illness and her eventual search for redemption.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, drama, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:30

      Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie, Lefty is forced from his partner’s shadow and must confront the ugly realities of frontier justice.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, history, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

        A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
        CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
        Duration02:02

        Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:48

        Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:46

        While Mike Keegan is celebrating his recent promotion to detective, in a fancy nightclub socialite Claire Gregory witnesses the murder of the owner by powerful mobster, Joey Venza. Mike is assigned to protect her in the night shift in her Manhattan apartment. When Venza threatens Claire, Mike and Claire eventually become closer—and Mike finds himself divided between the love for his family and his heated passion for Claire and his fascination of her world.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:51

        When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. Despite his easy charm, Vann is merely a reflection of what those he encounters want him to be. As locals start to disappear, it becomes apparent that an eerie subtraction is at work in the sleepy hamlet.

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

        A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA, Japan
        Duration02:01

        Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences




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