Movies Like Tall, Dark and Dead
If you liked Tall, Dark and Dead (1952), a crime movie directed by Adrian Weiss, 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.
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Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeA spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeWhen 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.
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The Naked City (1948)
★ 7.2/10Also crimeAfter a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
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The Blue Gardenia (1953)
★ 6.5/10Also crimeUpon 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…
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Nightfall (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeAn innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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Cigarettes & Coffee (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also crimeAt a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut…
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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeJane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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A Shot in the Dark (1964)
★ 7.2/10Also crimeInspector 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…
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeCharles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
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Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeFive hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
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Each Dawn I Die (1939)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeA corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Wrong Cops (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeA group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.
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House of Bamboo (1955)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeEddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
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Song of the Thin Man (1947)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeWhile 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…
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Murder in Three Acts (1986)
★ 6/10Also crimeIn 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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Little Caesar (1931)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeA small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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Naked Alibi (1954)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeQuestioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the…
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also crimeNancy 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…
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5 Against the House (1955)
★ 5.9/10Also crimeFormer war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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The Woman in the Window (1944)
★ 7.4/10Also crimeA seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.