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Movies that feel likeJoker: Folie à Deux (2024)

While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.

If you loved Joker: Folie à Deux, the closest films we have are Victoria (2015), Nightmare Alley (2021) and Carlito's Way (1993). All three share Joker: Folie à Deux's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Wild Goose Lake (2019).

🍅 31% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Todd Phillipscontemplativegrittytenseromantic
9 of 12 streaming nowAmazon Prime Video · Hulu · Kino Film Collection

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Victoria
2015 · dir. Sebastian Schipper
🍅 82%★ 7.5crime · thriller · romance

Both land grit and tension at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

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Nightmare Alley
2021 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 80%★ 7crime · drama · thrillerHulu

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

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Carlito's Way
1993 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 84%★ 7.9crime · drama · thrillerPrime VideoStarz

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

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Everybody Knows
2018 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 78%★ 6.9crime · mystery · thriller

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Joker: Folie à Deux

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

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The Traitor
2019 · dir. Marco Bellocchio
🍅 86%★ 7.1drama · crime · thrillerRent or buy

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: Trades the romance of Joker: Folie à Deux for an angle of its own

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

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Dial M for Murder
1954 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 90%★ 8.1thriller · crime · drama

Drama built on romance, twice over

When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

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Transporter 3
2008 · dir. Olivier Megaton
🍅 40%★ 6.1action · thriller · crime

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into action than Joker: Folie à Deux does

Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.

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Emily the Criminal
2022 · dir. John Patton Ford
🍅 93%★ 6.7crime · drama · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their business to the next level.

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Killing Them Softly
2012 · dir. Andrew Dominik
🍅 74%★ 6.2crime · thriller

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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 Secret Agent
2025 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 98%★ 7.2thriller · drama · crimeHulu

Drama of the same temperament

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

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The Wild Goose Lake
2019 · dir. Diao Yinan
🍅 91%★ 6.7crime · drama · thriller

Both play thriller straight

A gangster ends up making a mistake that causes every gun on both sides of the law to point at him. While on the run, he comes across a mysterious woman who might get him out of trouble or make things worse.

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The Hypnotist
2012 · dir. Lasse Hallström
★ 5.6crime · drama · thriller

Both know what they want from drama

After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving daughter before the murderer does.

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