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10 Best Movies Like Murky Waters

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

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#1
Blindfire

Blindfire

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Murky Waters for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repe...

#2
Trafficking

Trafficking

2023★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Murky Waters for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fresh out of prison, a former debt collector working for a gangland boss is told he has a terminal brain tumour. In an attempt to atone for his past he rescues a young girl from tr...

#3
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

2012★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Murky Waters for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden...

#4
The Bandit

The Bandit

1996★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Murky Waters for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The film tells the story of a group of bandits captured in the Cudi Mountains 35 years ago. All of them have died, either from illness or vendettas; only Baran (Şener Şen) survives...

#5
The Parts You Lose

The Parts You Lose

2019★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Murky Waters for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm....

#6
Above the Rim

Above the Rim

1994★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Murky Waters for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 empl...

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