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10 Best Movies Like The Yellow Dog

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

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#1
Inspector Lavardin

Inspector Lavardin

1986★ 6.2

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

Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow....

#2
Maigret Sets a Trap

Maigret Sets a Trap

1958★ 7.0

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

Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he ...

#3
God Is a Bullet

God Is a Bullet

2023★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Yellow Dog for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the ...

#4
Winged Creatures

Winged Creatures

2009★ 5.9

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

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts h...

#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 Yellow Dog for fans of Crime & Mystery & Drama. 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
Maigret Sees Red

Maigret Sees Red

1963★ 6.3

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

Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the ...

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