The Color of Lies

Movies Like

The Color of Lies (1999)

Crime, Drama

If you loved The Color of Lies, you'll love these similar films. Handpicked based on shared themes, genre, and feel.

Case 137

Case 137

2025 ★ 7.0

Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

Saint Omer

Saint Omer

2022 ★ 6.2

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

Monsieur Hire

Monsieur Hire

1989 ★ 7.2

A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.

Gangsters

Gangsters

2002 ★ 6.7

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.

The Glass Key

The Glass Key

1942 ★ 6.6

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Maigret Sets a Trap

Maigret Sets a Trap

1958 ★ 7.0

Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.

The Mirror Crack'd

The Mirror Crack'd

1980 ★ 6.1

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

The Detective

The Detective

1968 ★ 5.9

Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.

Three Days and a Life

Three Days and a Life

2019 ★ 6.4

Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of a child, and a big ravaging storm.

Nightfall

Nightfall

1956 ★ 6.9

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

Place Vendôme

Place Vendôme

1998 ★ 6.3

The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.

Cry of the City

Cry of the City

1948 ★ 6.7

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?

Knock on Any Door

Knock on Any Door

1949 ★ 6.2

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

TalhotBlond

TalhotBlond

2012 ★ 6.3

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

Madame X

Madame X

1966 ★ 6.4

Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her. She is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity in order to save the reputation of her husband and infant son. She wanders the world, trying to forget her heartbreak with the aid of alcohol and unsavory men. Eventually returning to the city of her downfall, she murders a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Amazingly, Holly is represented at her murder trial by her now adult son, who has become a public defender. In the hope of protecting her family, she refuses to reveal her real name and is known to the court as "Madame X".

Limbo

Limbo

2023 ★ 5.9

Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.

Deceiver

Deceiver

1997 ★ 6.0

The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

Riot in Cell Block 11

Riot in Cell Block 11

1954 ★ 7.1

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

Maigret Sees Red

Maigret Sees Red

1963 ★ 6.3

Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the FBI and a series of underworld figures to save the life of the witness...

Overdrive

Overdrive

2017 ★ 6.1

Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.

Want AI-powered personalized recommendations?

Find Something to Watch