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10 Best Movies Like The Defenders: Payback

If you loved The Defenders: Payback, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy

2011★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defenders: Payback for fans of Crime & Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Marcia Gay Harden (Academy Award winner for Pollock) star in the Life...

#2
Ray Donovan: The Movie

Ray Donovan: The Movie

2022★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defenders: Payback for fans of Crime & Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn...

#3
The Assault

The Assault

2014★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defenders: Payback for fans of Crime & Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to ...

#4
Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise

Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise

2015★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defenders: Payback for fans of Crime & Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Police Chief Jesse Stone now presides over the quiet, seaside village of Paradise, Massachusetts. When the facts don't add up in a brutal Boston-area murder case, Jesse opens an in...

#5
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

1986★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defenders: Payback for fans of Crime & Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help fro...

#6
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defenders: Payback for fans of Crime & Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sist...

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