Movies Like Playing with Fire

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

1974·1h 42m·★ 6.1·Alain Robbe-Grillet

2 shared crewBoth star Anicée Alvina & Jean-Louis TrintignantDir. Alain Robbe-Grillet

Trans-Europ-Express

1966·1h 35m·★ 7.0·Alain Robbe-Grillet

Both star Jean-Louis Trintignant & Charles MillotDir. Alain Robbe-Grillet

My Girl

1991·1h 43m·★ 6.9·Howard Zieff

TMDB recommendsComedy & Drama

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

1964·1h 56m·★ 7.5·Bryan Forbes

TMDB recommendsCrime & Drama

In Order of Disappearance

2014·1h 55m·★ 7.1·Hans Petter Moland

TMDB recommendsComedy & Crime

Blondie of the Follies

1932·1h 31m·★ 6.4·Edmund Goulding

TMDB recommendsDrama & Comedy

Gone Baby Gone

2007·1h 53m·★ 7.6·Ben Affleck

Fans also likedCrime & Drama & Mystery

The Pariah

1972·1h 42m·★ 6.1·José Giovanni

Fans also likedCrime & Drama & Mystery

Suicide Kings

1997·1h 46m·★ 6.9·Peter O'Fallon

Fans also likedComedy & Crime & Drama

I Am All Girls

2021·1h 47m·★ 6.0·Donovan Marsh

Fans also likedDrama & Mystery & Crime

The Man Who Lies

1968·1h 37m·★ 6.8·Alain Robbe-Grillet

Starring Jean-Louis TrintignantDir. Alain Robbe-GrilletMystery & Drama

A Walk Among the Tombstones

2014·1h 54m·★ 6.5·Scott Frank

Fans also likedCrime & Drama & Mystery

Marlowe

1969·1h 35m·★ 6.4·Paul Bogart

Fans also likedCrime & Mystery & Drama

First Name: Carmen

1983·1h 25m·★ 6.3·Jean-Luc Godard

Fans also likedCrime & Drama & Comedy

The Locksmith

2023·1h 31m·★ 4.9·Nicolas Harvard

Fans also likedMystery & Crime & Drama

Red Beard

1965·3h 5m·★ 8.3·Akira Kurosawa

TMDB recommends

That Man from Rio

1964·1h 56m·★ 7.0·Philippe de Broca

TMDB recommends

Oscar

1967·1h 25m·★ 7.5·Édouard Molinaro

TMDB recommends

Cleveland Abduction

2015·1h 28m·★ 6.6·Alex Kalymnios

Fans also likedDrama & Crime

Good Boy

2026·1h 50m·★ 6.8·Jan Komasa

Fans also likedDrama & Mystery

How Good Is Playing with Fire?

Ratings across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and TMDB, plus our verdict.