Films like Kill the Messenger (2014)

Kill the Messenger (2014) is crime, drama, history, mystery, thriller. These 24 films share its genres, ordered by how much overlap they have and how well they are rated.

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In the Valley of Elah (2007)

Also crime and drama. 6.8/10

A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Infernal Affairs (2002)

Also crime and drama. 7.8/10

Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their…
Mystic River (2003)

Also crime and drama. 7.7/10

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Patriots Day (2016)

Also crime and drama. 7.1/10

In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt…
The Client (1994)

Also crime and drama. 6.7/10

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome…
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

Also crime and drama. 6.3/10

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
High and Low (1963)

Also crime and drama. 8.4/10

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
The Bone Collector (1999)

Also crime and drama. 6.8/10

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But…
Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Also crime and drama. 7.5/10

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous…
Original Sin (2001)

Also drama and history. 6.1/10

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
The Number 23 (2007)

Also crime and drama. 6.4/10

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter…
Righteous Kill (2008)

Also crime and drama. 5.9/10

Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

Also crime and drama. 7.5/10

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the…
Sleeping Dogs (2024)

Also crime and drama. 7.0/10

Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, is forced to revisit a case he can't remember. As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece…
The Score (2001)

Also crime and drama. 6.7/10

An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

Also crime and drama. 6.8/10

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one…
High Crimes (2002)

Also crime and drama. 6.3/10

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer who has been AWOL for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her…
The Outfit (2022)

Also crime and drama. 7.1/10

Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a…
Cop Killer (1994)

Also crime and drama. 5.8/10

A woman is found murdered in a closed amusement park. A young couple who happen to be there at the same time become, without their knowledge, suspects for the murder. They are…
It Was Just an Accident (2025)

Also crime and drama. 7.2/10

An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.
Snowden (2016)

Also crime and drama. 7.1/10

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Arlington Road (1999)

Also crime and drama. 7.0/10

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly…
In the Line of Fire (1993)

Also crime and drama. 7.0/10

Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling…
Reptile (2023)

Also crime and drama. 6.7/10

Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, and by doing so dismantles the…