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10 Best Movies Like True Confessions

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

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#1
Primal Fear

Primal Fear

1996★ 7.7

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

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering th...

#2
Crimes of Passion

Crimes of Passion

1984★ 6.3

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

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopa...

#3
Scarface

Scarface

1932★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True Confessions for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the crim...

#4
Blood

Blood

2012★ 5.9

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

When police discover a young girl brutally murdered, brothers Joe Fairburns and Chrissie Fairburns join their supervisor Robert to investigate main suspect Jason Buliegh, a local s...

#5
The Onion Field

The Onion Field

1979★ 6.0

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

An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted b...

#6
A Walk Among the Tombstones

A Walk Among the Tombstones

2014★ 6.3

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

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife....

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