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Movies Like The Ivory Snuff Box

If you liked The Ivory Snuff Box (1915), a mystery movie directed by Maurice Tourneur, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also mystery

    An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman…

  2. 2My Favorite Brunette

    My Favorite Brunette (1947)

    ★ 6.6/10Also mystery

    Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay…

  3. 3Song of the Thin Man

    Song of the Thin Man (1947)

    ★ 6.7/10Also mystery

    While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on a young bandleader and his musicians, the couple steps in…

  4. 4The Maltese Falcon

    The Maltese Falcon (1941)

    ★ 7.7/10Also mystery

    A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

  5. 5The Thin Man Goes Home

    The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)

    ★ 7.1/10Also mystery

    Hoping for a peaceful visit with his parents in the small town of Sycamore Springs, Nick Charles and his wife Nora soon find themselves surrounded by old rivalries, family tensions, and a mysterious murder. Nick’s…

  6. 6The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also mystery

    Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while…

  7. 7Shadow of the Thin Man

    Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

    ★ 7/10Also mystery

    While attending a major horse race with their young son, Nick Jr., Nick and Nora Charles witnesse a shocking murder from the crowded grandstand. What first appears to be an isolated killing soon leads to a maze of…

  8. 8Another Thin Man

    Another Thin Man (1939)

    ★ 7.1/10Also mystery

    Nick and Nora Charles are back - and this time, they have a baby, a wealthy new client, and another murder to solve! Retired detective Nick is enjoying family life with Nora and their young son, Nick Jr., when…

  9. 9The Cheap Detective

    The Cheap Detective (1978)

    ★ 6.4/10Also mystery

    A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.

  10. 10Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder

    Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also mystery

    A murder investigation is reignited in a house that is considered haunted by the Lawrenceton locals and where years ago Aurora and Sally, as teenagers, discovered a body.

  11. 11Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set…

  12. 12Sherlock Jr.

    Sherlock Jr. (1924)

    ★ 8/10Also mystery

    A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

  13. 13Sleep, My Love

    Sleep, My Love (1948)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

  14. 14The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

    The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)

    ★ 6.7/10Also mystery

    Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.

  15. 15Nancy

    Nancy (2018)

    ★ 5.8/10Also mystery

    Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.

  16. 16The Deadly Affair

    The Deadly Affair (1967)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have…

  17. 17Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery

    When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

  18. 18A Shot in the Dark

    A Shot in the Dark (1964)

    ★ 7.2/10Also mystery

    Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles…

  19. 19Lady in the Lake

    Lady in the Lake (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery

    Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to…

  20. 20Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also mystery

    In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

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