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10 Best Movies Like Sword for Hire

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

#1
Samurai Saga

Samurai Saga

1959★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sword for Hire for fans of Drama & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a fr...

#2
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sword for Hire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#3
Taxidermia

Taxidermia

2006★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sword for Hire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a...

#4
The Godfather

The Godfather

1972★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sword for Hire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp...

#5
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

1970★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sword for Hire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and t...

#6
RoboCop

RoboCop

1987★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sword for Hire for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicat...