After the second trailer of GTA6, we are even more eager to play the game. If that’s even possible. Although it is true that it doesn’t clarify much more about the game, something does seem obvious: the game is going to be very focused on its main couple. On how they are a couple, on how they commit crimes together, and how that affects their lives in one way or another. And we find that very interesting, among other things, because we have already seen it.
Because yes, we are going to talk about movies that have already told stories of couples united in love and crime. Great stories from Hollywood, but also from other countries, that deal with the same themes as this GTA6. And that have very likely inspired it. Because anything that shortens the time until this game is released, on May 26, 2026, will be welcome.
Burning Love
With a script by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott, this movie where Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette play a couple who are together through thick and thin, you shouldn’t miss it for a good reason. It has all the good elements of a Quentin Tarantino film as well as all the good elements of a Tony Scott film. In other words, it feels like a GTA movie, only directed as a true psychotronic delirium.
Natural Born Killers
Quentin Tarantino never runs out of ideas, because he also wrote the script for this impressive film by Oliver Stone. Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis have a very particular chemistry on screen, especially when what drives them to crime is having to free themselves from their horrible personal situations. A brilliant analysis of violence and how it is treated in the media that would not be out of place in GTA. And it wouldn’t be surprising if it served as direct inspiration for GTA6.
Thelma & Louise
There is no criminal drama more remembered than the one starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. And not without good reason. This road trip between two friends that ended in a one-way trip to hell is the great feminist story about sisterhood and also about how to tell the authorities to take a hike when they don’t want to imprison you for doing what needed to be done. A film that is still exceptional today and one of the best films by its director, the brother of the aforementioned Tony: Ridley Scott.
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde easily became famous both for the kind of actions they undertook and for the fact that, in cinema, they were portrayed in 1967 by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. If two of the most handsome actors in Hollywood history, under the direction of the excellent Arthur Penn, make a biopic about your life, it’s normal for you to end up going down in history. And we shouldn’t be surprised if the somewhat sardonic style has influenced GTA in some way.
Bad Lands
It’s all laughs until Terrence Malick shows up to get existential. Badlands is a neo-noir story where two young people are brought together by fate and against their families. Much more tragic than any of the other films on the list, it is here to serve as a contrast. If what you love most about the GTAs are their darker and more reflective moments, when emotions and the game’s aesthetics seep through to tell something, Badlands is your movie. Although we warn you: after watching it, you might not be the same.
Pierrot the Madman
Talking about movie couples united by crime and not mentioning the great French criminal couple of Jean Luc Godard feels not only like a waste but also an insult. Of course, this is not your typical Hollywood movie. If you expect a classic crime story or a Hollywood romance, you won’t find it here. But if you expect a series of seemingly absurd adventures that ends in a great explosion, both physical and emotional, worthy of the most absurd moment of any GTA, then yes: there is something for you here.
Romeo + Juliet by William Shakespeare
To finish, nothing beats talking about the classics. Shakespeare. Well, more or less. This version by Baz Luhrmann is like any adaptation by Baz Luhrmann: an absolute sacrilege of everything that is sacred in this world. But at least in Romeo + Juliet, he does it with a certain purpose and grace. By making it contemporary and turning it into gang wars, it gives a rather interesting new meaning. It may be the worst movie on this list, but it is also a movie that feels like GTA. Excessive, explosive, absurd. And sometimes that’s all we ask for from fiction.