
10 Best Movies Like Once a Thief
If you loved Once a Thief, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Cry of the City
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Thief for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another cri...

Brute Force
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Thief for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how ...

White Heat
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Thief for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy t...

The Seven-Ups
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Thief for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money....

Overdrive
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Thief for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line....

Limbo
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Thief for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about th...