Movies like L.I.E.: 20 to watch next
If you loved L.I.E. (2001) — a drama and crime film directed by Michael Cuesta — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of L.I.E. most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like coming of age, long island, new york and paedophilia. 5 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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A Thousand and One 2023★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Crime
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Lost Girls 2020★ 6.0
Shares: Drama
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.
Stream in India on Netflix
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The United States of Leland 2003★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected by the murder, including Becky and her sister, Julie, must contend with their own problems.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Kids 1995★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Crime
A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Night of the Juggler 1980★ 6.8
Shares: Crime
When a twisted psychotic kidnaps a young girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy developer, her father, a hardened ex-cop, doggedly hunts them through New York's seamy streets.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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M 1951★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
In the city, someone is murdering children. The police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Yards 2000★ 6.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Hot Summer Nights 2018★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Crime
In 1991, a sheltered teenager comes of age during a wild summer on Cape Cod, getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying, and eventually realizing that he's in way over his head.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Mysterious Skin 2005★ 7.7
Shares: Drama
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Once Upon a Time in America 1984★ 8.4
Shares: Drama, Crime
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Stream in India on VI movies and tv
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A Bronx Tale 1993★ 7.9
Shares: Drama, Crime
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Boys of St. Vincent 1994★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, Crime
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
Stream in India on Filmzie
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Boy Wonder 2010★ 6.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides what is right or wrong? As the boundaries blur, Sean's dual life wears on his psyche and his two worlds careen dangerously close to colliding. Like a graphic novel you can't put down, Boy Wonder challenges morality, distorting perceptions of what is right and what is justified, as it races to its shocking conclusion.
Stream in India on Tubi TV
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Cape Fear 1991★ 7.3
Shares: Drama, Crime
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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The Window 1949★ 7.0
Shares: Crime
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Sixth Sense 1999★ 8.0
Shares: Drama
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Thoroughbreds 2018★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart. Together, they devise a plan to kill Lily's abusive stepfather by hiring a lowlife drug dealer.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Light Sleeper 1992★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Crime
John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something more acute — and dangerous — when he re-encounters an old flame while a string of seemingly drug-related murders rocks the city.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete 2013★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Klute 1971★ 6.8
Shares: Crime, Drama
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now