Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Upper Hand

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

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#1
The Seven-Ups

The Seven-Ups

1973★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Upper Hand for fans of Drama & Thriller & Crime. 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....

#2
Three Days and a Life

Three Days and a Life

2019★ 6.4

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

Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishi...

#3
The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum

1966★ 5.9

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

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigat...

#4
Overdrive

Overdrive

2017★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Upper Hand 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....

#5
The Unknown Girl

The Unknown Girl

2016★ 6.2

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

Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, after the police can't identify ...

#6
The Parts You Lose

The Parts You Lose

2019★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Upper Hand for fans of Drama & Thriller & Crime. 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....

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