Movies like The Last Deadly Mission (2008)
The best movies like The Last Deadly Mission (2008) are 36th Precinct (2004), Tell No One (2006) and Diamond 13 (2009). If The Last Deadly Mission hooked you with its crime and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPolisse (2011)7.7/10 from 1,338 votes
- NewestIn His Shadow (2023)Released 2023
- In French36th Precinct (2004)Also in French
36th Precinct (2004)
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTell No One (2006)
A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDiamond 13 (2009)
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisCarbone (2017)
In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBastards (2013)
Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy – though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisCounter Investigation (2007)
A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night of the 12th (2022)
Young and ambitious Captain Vivés has just been appointed group leader at the Grenoble Criminal Squad when Clara's murder case lands on his desk. Vivés and his team investigate Clara's complex life and relations, but what starts as a professional and methodical immersion into the victim's life soon turns into a haunting obsession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Crimson Rivers (2000)
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPolisse (2011)
Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer commissioned to graphically document the daily routine of the team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPoint Blank (2010)
Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGangsters (2002)
Franck Chaievski and Nina Delgado are two undercover detectives of a French special force trying to identify two corrupts members of the Paris Police Force. Franck is pretending to be a gangster and Nina a prostitute living with him, and involved in a robbery of a fortune in diamonds, having seven deaths and some injured persons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnthony Zimmer (2005)
François, an ordinary Joe, falls hard for the sublimely beautiful woman who has just picked him up on the train and invited him to spend the weekend with her on the Riviera. But when the lady disappears the next morning and the police drag him in for questioning, François discovers he's been set up to pass for her notorious outlaw husband on the run, Anthony Zimmer. Even though he's been lied to and manipulated, François' life is changed forever and he's ready to give anything - maybe even his life - to hold this mysterious beauty in his arms again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Adversary (2002)
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Private Affair (2002)
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is attacked and injured by an anonymous assailant and becomes reluctant to continue his search. But when Rachel's body is found, Francois is drawn deeper into the investigation as he discovers the dead girl's secret life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (2015)
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisLabyrinth (2003)
Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders. Is Claude really guilty of the crimes, or is he a victim of his own mind?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaigret (2022)
In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand what happened to the victim.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisOh Mercy (2019)
A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered on Christmas Eve. However, in a neighborhood rife with crime, everyone seems to be a suspect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Stronghold (2021)
Tired of the small-time grind, three Marseille cops get a chance to bust a major drug network. But lines blur when a key informant makes a big ask.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlind Man (2012)
A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Crew (2016)
One of the members of a gang of thieves commits a serious mistake that force them to work for a ruthless gang of drug dealers, endangering the future of the team, their lives and those of their families.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSee How They Fall (1994)
A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a naive young man, who changes his name to please him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLe Doulos (1962)
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like this22 Bullets (2010)
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEmpire of the Wolves (2005)
When the young detective Paul Nerteaux finds the third slashed female corpse of illegal Turkish immigrants, he decides to ask for support to the experienced dark retired detective Jean-Louis Schiffer to chase the serial killer. Together, they infiltrate in the Turkish mafia trying to find the answer to the crimes. Meanwhile, the worker Anna Heymes is being submitted to a brain treatment and has severe headaches and glimpses of memories and visions. When these two parallel events collide, disclose that the Turkish organization "The Wolves" is behind them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisLost Bullet (2020)
A small time delinquent, turned police mechanic for a go fast task force, is forced to defend his innocence when his mentor is killed by dirty cops.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn Her Name (2016)
In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Prey (2011)
A robber escapes from prison with a single objective in mind: to track down his former cellmate, a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on him. A cop is sent after the robber who, despite his best efforts, soon becomes Public Enemy Number One. As the protagonists are driven to their limits, it becomes increasingly unclear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn His Shadow (2023)
After the death of their father, two half-brothers find themselves on opposite sides of an escalating conflict with tragic consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Last Deadly Mission?
The closest matches to The Last Deadly Mission are 36th Precinct (2004), Tell No One (2006) and Diamond 13 (2009). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Last Deadly Mission?
People who watched The Last Deadly Mission most often go on to 36th Precinct (2004), Tell No One (2006) and Diamond 13 (2009).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Last Deadly Mission?
Polisse (2011), rated 7.7/10 by 1,338 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Last Deadly Mission?
In His Shadow (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Last Deadly Mission?
Yes: 36th Precinct (2004), Tell No One (2006) and Diamond 13 (2009).
How are movies similar to The Last Deadly Mission chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Last Deadly Mission, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.