Movies like Winter Kills (1979)
The best movies like Winter Kills (1979) are Executive Action (1973), The Enemy Within (1994) and Bone (1972). If Winter Kills hooked you with its drama and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedRear Window (1954)8.3/10 from 7,487 votes
- NewestThe Locksmith (2023)Released 2023
Executive Action (1973)
Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Enemy Within (1994)
A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBone (1972)
When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple experiencing marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & thriller
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDiplomatic Courier (1952)
During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret intelligence. But when he arrives at the meeting point, a train station in Salzburg, his contact turns up dead, and the message is nowhere to be found. With no clear suspect in sight, Kells must sort through his uncertain relationships with two women, while sidestepping the pitfalls of subterfuge, sabotage and spies in his search for the documents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeven Days in May (1964)
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMarathon Man (1976)
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRussian Roulette (1975)
An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When the prisoner is kidnapped, the officer is drawn into a complicated assassination scheme.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Deterrence (2000)
The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Inner Sanctum (1948)
A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Beyond the Night (2019)
When a soldier's son reveals damning information about a local gangster's missing daughter, a war of attrition wreaks havoc on their forgotten coal mining town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Man on a Swing (1974)
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer. Flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wills offers his help to the skeptical policeman, and, when his supposed visions about the case begin to reveal clues and information that only the killer could possibly have known, he becomes a suspect himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Fail Safe (2000)
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpinning Boris (2003)
Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Deuce of Spades (2010)
When a hotrod girl finds a mysterious letter dating back to the fifties hidden in her roadster, she is left with nothing but questions... She sets out to find the answers and retrace her deuce's troubled past. Who is Johnny Callaway? But will learning the truth make a difference and can a broken man ever get a second chance at a happiness long forgotten? Fast hotrods, cool cats, gravity defying swing dancing and rockin' retro music all serve as a colorful backdrop to this heartfelt, inspiring story. Discover an underground scene where counter culture is in, old school is cool and nostalgia forever reigns.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
The Odessa File (1974)
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRear Window (1954)
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisRemember (2015)
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisApt Pupil (1998)
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Double McGuffin (1979)
Some school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a body instead. When they bring the police, neither is there, and the police refuses to believe them. Later they discover both were part of an assassination plot. Now they have to figure out how to stop the plot and put the bad guys in jail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Interview with the Assassin (2002)
Out of work TV cameraman Ron Kobelski is approached by his formerly reclusive neighbor Walter Ohlinger. Ohlinger claims that he was the mysterious "second gunman" that shot and killed President Kennedy. Ohlinger has kept quiet all these years, but has decided to tell his story now that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Kobelski is skeptical of his neighbor's story, after his investigations provide ambiguous answers. His attitude changes, however, after he receives threatening messages on his answering machine, and spots shadowy figures in his backyard. Is Ohlinger telling the truth? Or is there a bigger conspiracy at work?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Julia (1977)
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuburbicon (2017)
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisShimmer Lake (2017)
Shot in reverse day-by-day through a week—a local sheriff embarks on a quest to unlock the mystery of three small-town criminals and a bank heist gone wrong.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Locksmith (2023)
A thief fresh out of prison, tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an unexpected disappearance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Caveman's Valentine (2001)
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but how can he prove he's right when everyone thinks he's insane?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisCa$h (2010)
A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence – all in the name of money.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBreathless (2012)
Lorna is a strong-willed Texas woman who’s had enough of her untrustworthy husband Dale’s criminal acts and lack of husbandry. Fed up, she enlists the help of her old friend, Tiny, to help her figure out what to do with Dale after his latest double-cross involving the theft of $100,000 from a bank.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Winter Kills?
The closest matches to Winter Kills are Executive Action (1973), The Enemy Within (1994) and Bone (1972). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Winter Kills?
People who watched Winter Kills most often go on to Executive Action (1973), The Enemy Within (1994) and Bone (1972).
What is the highest-rated movie like Winter Kills?
Rear Window (1954), rated 8.3/10 by 7,487 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Winter Kills?
The Locksmith (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Winter Kills?
Yes: Executive Action (1973), The Enemy Within (1994) and Bone (1972).
How are movies similar to Winter Kills chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Winter Kills, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.