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10 Best Movies Like Three Hours to Kill

If you loved Three Hours to Kill, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Three Hours to Kill for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer,...

#2
Mackenna's Gold

Mackenna's Gold

1969★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Three Hours to Kill for fans of Western. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undistu...

#3
American Beauty

American Beauty

1999★ 8.0

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

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend....

#4
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#5
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Three Hours to Kill for fans of Mystery. 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...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Three Hours to Kill for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....