For fans of Sidney Lumet: what to watch, read & play next

A meticulously assembled heist unravels when human weakness inside the crew proves more dangerous than the law.

Violence shatters small-town calm as a pacifist widow finds herself trapped with a killer in her own home.

A defence lawyer forced to defend a client she knows is guilty faces the full corruption of the legal system.

A washed-up detective and an ex-footballer dig into a murder only to find the rot goes all the way up.

A romance between an innocent and a career criminal asks whether someone can truly escape who they are.

A small-time schemer inserts himself between two sets of criminals and finds every move tightens the trap.

A man wrongly imprisoned emerges embittered, then finds love and new jeopardy when another man dies.

A man systematically murders his way up the aristocratic family tree with dark wit and cold efficiency.

Two women who each killed someone — one for revenge, one for desire — confront each other in court.

A forensic medicine procedural that holds grief and human connection at its centre rather than spectacle.

A journalism student discovers her father was a criminal — and a newspaper decides what that means for her.

A parolee trying to go straight is pulled back by the people he once worked with — familiar, relentless pressure.

An unconventional Paris detective works the city's darkest, most emotionally charged cases outside normal procedure.

A detective crossing decades to save his daughter blurs time and moral clarity in equal measure.

A Nazi occult ritual at the fall of Berlin unleashes forces with catastrophic reach across decades.

Cops and criminals investigate the same murder simultaneously, the real dividing line being personal morality.

Hunt Nazi fugitives through gritty 1971 detective work — evidence analysis, deduction, and a ticking trail.

A courtroom thriller in steampunk Paris where class, racism, and a brutal murder charge converge.

Eliot Ness, retired and weary, is dragged back into a city rotting with corruption he thought he'd left behind.

A Vietnam vet's rise through organised crime offers an unflinching look at loyalty, violence, and belonging.

An 1897 floating fortress built on Edison's vision becomes a site of dread and hidden atrocity.

A cabdriver drawn reluctantly into 1930s organised crime finds the rewards outweigh the conscience — until they don't.

A 1956 Tokyo private eye works a series of bizarre murders in a city still haunted by the war.

A police chief's final 180 days force corrupt compromises that test every principle he thought he held.

Two young women run illegal cons in a gangster's nightclub, using their affliction as both weapon and cover.

A widow steps into her late husband's detective shoes, drawn into the convulsions of an old family's hidden crime.

A cash-strapped woman deals with a card sharp in wartime Paris and enters a world of calculated risk.

An accountant's family is brutalised and he transforms into something the city's indifferent systems created.

In Montana and Los Angeles, two apparently unrelated events connect through a chilling pattern of absence.

A 1949 Britain that made peace with fascism faces its last resisters — a thriller about complicity and conscience.

Perry Mason engineers corporate chaos to expose a suspect, only to land at a murder he didn't predict.

A philanthropist's fortune grows just after his brother dies — and a suspicious nephew makes an unreliable witness.