Movies like Street Smart: 20 to watch next
If you loved Street Smart (1987) — a thriller, crime and drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Street Smart most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like new york city, journalist and prostitute. 5 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Klute 1971★ 6.8
Shares: Thriller, 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
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Nothing but the Truth 2008★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Thriller
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Bordertown 2007★ 6.3
Shares: Crime, Drama, Thriller
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
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Vice Squad 1982★ 6.2
Shares: Crime, Thriller, Drama
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
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The Lincoln Lawyer 2011★ 7.2
Shares: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Mick spends most of his time defending petty crooks and other bottom-feeders, so it comes as quite a surprise when he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy who is accused of attempted murder. However, what Mick initially thinks is an open-and-shut case with a big monetary reward develops into something more sinister.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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True Story 2015★ 6.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Dead Man Down 2013★ 6.2
Shares: Thriller, Crime, Drama
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
Stream in India on Lionsgate Play
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Cruising 1980★ 6.6
Shares: Crime, Thriller
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the gay S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
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The Public Eye 1992★ 6.2
Shares: Crime, Drama, Thriller
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
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True Crime 1999★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
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Manhattan Night 2016★ 5.9
Shares: Drama, Thriller
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.
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In Cold Light 2026★ 5.9
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Fresh out of prison, Ava's attempt to reclaim her drug operation collapses when she witnesses a brutal crime, forcing her to flee into a nightmarish underworld where allies are scarce and enemies multiply by the minute.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Tyler Perry's Duplicity 2025★ 6.6
Shares: Thriller, Drama
High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned private investigator – Marley’s search for what really happened leads her down a treacherous maze of deception and betrayal.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Kill the Messenger 2014★ 6.6
Shares: Crime, Drama, Thriller
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Nines 2007★ 6.0
Shares: Drama, Thriller
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
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Phone Booth 2003★ 6.9
Shares: Thriller, Crime
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Mack 1973★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, Crime
A recently-released convict becomes the most powerful pimp in Oakland, but tragedy ensues when his activities draw the ire of two corrupt cops and the crime lord he once worked for.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Palmetto 1998★ 6.0
Shares: Crime, Thriller
After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for payback to regain his lost two years. He's hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying millionaire). He discovers that he is being set up on multiple levels and will soon face a longer sentence if he doesn't prove the truth.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 1956★ 6.8
Shares: Crime, Drama
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
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Fatherland 1994★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Thriller
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now