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10 Best Movies Like A Bullet for Joey

If you loved A Bullet for Joey, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Nightfall

Nightfall

1956★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Bullet for Joey for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit....

#2
The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

1950★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Bullet for Joey for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon i...

#3
The Big Combo

The Big Combo

1955★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Bullet for Joey for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend....

#4
The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man

1973★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Bullet for Joey for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose ...

#5
The Glass Key

The Glass Key

1942★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Bullet for Joey for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

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

#6
The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Bullet for Joey for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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

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