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10 Best Movies Like The Pickup Artist

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

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#1
Trafficking

Trafficking

2023★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Pickup Artist for fans of Crime & 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...

#2
Frank and Penelope

Frank and Penelope

2022★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Pickup Artist for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly...

#3
Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law

1986★ 6.1

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

A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence....

#4
White Elephant

White Elephant

2022★ 5.8

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

An ex-marine enforcer must battle his conscience and code of honor when he is forced to do things for the mob....

#5
The Infernal Machine

The Infernal Machine

2022★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Pickup Artist for fans of Mystery & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account...

#6
Tightrope

Tightrope

1984★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Pickup Artist for fans of Crime & Mystery & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are...

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