Films like A Shock to the System

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   Phone Booth

   Film · 2003 · also crime

   A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle si...

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   The Woman in the Window

   Film · 2021 · also crime

   An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.

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3. 3

   The Killer

   Film · 2023 · also crime

   After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

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   Q & A

   Film · 1990 · also crime

   A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him...

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5. 5

   Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

   Film · 2025 · also comedy and crime

   A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next...

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   The Big Heat

   Film · 1953 · also crime

   After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

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   Killing Them Softly

   Film · 2012 · also crime

   Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

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   The Anderson Tapes

   Film · 1971 · also crime

   Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he...

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   10 Rillington Place

   Film · 1971 · also crime

   The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy...

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    Reasonable Doubt

    Film · 2014 · also crime

    When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the...

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