Films and TV shows that feel like Sinnerman by Nina Simone

A frantic, apocalyptic chase in which a sinner runs from judgment and finds nowhere to hide. The song builds from a rolling groove into an ecstatic, near-trance frenzy.

1. The Thomas Crown Affair (1999): The song's best-known screen moment, used for the stylish cat-and-mouse heist between Brosnan and Russo.
2. Inside Man (2006): A tense, clever city heist where the hunt and the moral stakes escalate with the same slow-burning intensity.
3. Peaky Blinders (2013): Sinful men, guilt and violent fate, scored with the same dark, driving swagger.
4. Person of Interest (2011): Pursuit, surveillance and moral reckoning in New York, and the show has used the song.
5. Selma (2014): Brings the civil rights movement that gave Simone's performances their urgency and fire.
6. What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015): A documentary about Nina Simone herself, her genius, her activism and her turmoil.
7. Heat (1995): Cop and thief circle each other toward an inevitable reckoning, with the same relentless momentum.
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000): Runaway sinners, baptism and Southern gospel in a comic odyssey, close to the song's spiritual roots.