20 best movies like Six Ways to Sunday (1997)

List of the best movies like Six Ways to Sunday (1997): Breaking News in Yuba County, The Narrows, The King of Comedy, Underclassman, Metro, Killing Them Softly, Jawbreaker, Bad Turn Worse, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans, Blind Detective.

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Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other side of the East River. Based on Tim McLoughlin's novel "Heart of the Old Country".

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A young detective goes undercover at an elite private school to destroy an international stolen car ring.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

    Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    3 of Reagan High School's most popular girls pretend to kidnap their friend by shoving a jawbreaker into the victim's mouth to keep her from screaming. Their plan goes awry when the girl swallows the jawbreaker, choking to death. Now the leader of the pack will do anything to keep the accident a secret.

    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: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Terrence McDonagh, a New Orleans Police sergeant, who starts out as a good cop, receiving a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. During his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and later becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. McDonagh finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryHong Kong, China
    Duration02:09

    A blind detective, former cop, teams up with a policewoman who admires him to solve the disappearance of a girl friend of hers, years ago. Besides, he helps her to improve her skills as an investigator.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountrySpain, France, Sweden, Argentina
    Duration01:38

    Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Romania
    Duration01:43

    While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in the metro area, Cole is assigned to the case, along with tough-talking fellow cop Jim Campbell. Although the two men clash, they gradually become effective partners as they uncover a conspiracy linked to the killings, which also involves terrorism and organized crime.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration01:32

    A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his girlfriend, and some guys from New Jersey.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O'Donnell) must retrieve it. While he tracks the stash down, the bag changes hands numerous times, finding its way to the Drifter (Jeremy Davies) and the Waitress (Rachael Leigh Cook), among others. As the bag's journey continues, more characters, including the Cop (Michael Rapaport) and the Sheriff (Keith David), get drawn into the winding crime tale, and the search becomes increasingly desperate.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Charlie, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Charlie plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:34

    Mo Ali’s futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to London’s East 17. SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life, where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely wielded by aimless youths. Amidst the chaos is the Paper Chazers gang, a rare morally conscious group who trade scavenged food for money. After Chazers gang member, Junior (Kedar Williams-Stirling), witnesses his brother, murder he must decide whether to get revenge of stick to the gangs moral code... In this superbly paced and artistic film, present-day social issues, and murky city streets, provide a perfect canvas for imagination and action.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration01:28

    Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    When Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Sam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red, a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jjaks, Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the dark arts of assassination and learns the true meaning of friendship, honor and respect.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration01:55

    Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:34

    Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, Murakawa's headquarters are bombed and he and his gang are ambushed in a bar.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    Leanne is salutatorian when she needs to be valedictorian to get her scholarship to Harvard. The only class she is worse than the leader in is history, taught by Mrs. Tingle, and the teacher hates her. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. Tingle's class goes awry, mayhem ensues and friendships, loyalties and trust are tested by the teacher's intricate mind-games.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:27

    Into the solitary life of middle-aged hitman, Victor Meynard, come two people: Antoine, a youth who becomes Victor's apprentice, and Renée, a bold thief Victor's been hired to kill because she cheated a mobster. When circumstances prevent Victor from killing her, the gangster sends two more teams to do it (and to dispatch Victor and Antoine). Victor decides to help Renée, and the unlikely trio ends up at his house with his temperamental mother; there, as they hide out, Victor's attraction to Renée grows, she discovers his vocation and fears he's going to kill her, and an ultimate showdown with their hunters is inevitable.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, music
    CountryUSA

    As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.

    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: 6.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:45

    A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryUSA

    While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

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