
Movies that feel likeBad Genius (2017)
If you loved Bad Genius, the closest films we have are Cocaine Bear (2023), One Battle After Another (2025) and Andhadhun (2018). All three share Bad Genius' gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Elize: Shadows of a Woman (2026).
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If Bad Genius hit the spot, these will too

Both land grit and tension at once
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Witty and playful in the same breath
The difference: Easier on the stillness than Bad Genius

Gritty crime, and it commits to that
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Bad Genius does

Both lean on tension more than on thriller
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft


Contemplative drama in both cases


From the 2010s, and it lands the same way

Thriller built on stillness, twice over

Comedy with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Drama built on tension, twice over

The same crime instincts
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