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Movies Like Taste of Excitement

If you liked Taste of Excitement (1969), a drama and mystery movie directed by Don Sharp, 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. 1Appointment with Death

    Appointment with Death (1988)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and mystery

    Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the…

  2. 2The Bourne Identity

    The Bourne Identity (2002)

    ★ 7.5/10Also mystery and thriller

    Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many…

  3. 3Overdrive

    Overdrive (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and mystery

    Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.

  4. 4The Woman in Cabin 10

    The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery and thriller

    On a lavish yacht for an assignment, a journalist sees a passenger go overboard. But when no one believes her, she risks her life to uncover the truth.

  5. 5The Bourne Ultimatum

    The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and mystery

    Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the reporter stirs a…

  6. 6Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and 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.

  7. 7Stowaway

    Stowaway (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also mystery and thriller

    A tenacious party girl fights to survive after three thieves commandeer her luxury yacht. Unable to escape and trapped on the yacht at high seas, the prey becomes the hunter as she turns the tables on the intruders and…

  8. 8Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

    Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

    ★ 6.7/10Also mystery and drama

    Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.

  9. 9Death on the Nile

    Death on the Nile (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also mystery and thriller

    Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

  10. 10Evil Under the Sun

    Evil Under the Sun (1982)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller and mystery

    An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.

  11. 11A Walk Among the Tombstones

    A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery

    Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

  12. 12Don't Bother to Knock

    Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and thriller

    An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

  13. 13The Mask of Dimitrios

    The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and mystery

    A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order…

  14. 14Layer Cake

    Layer Cake (2004)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and thriller

    When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

  15. 15Endless Night

    Endless Night (1972)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and thriller

    Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious…

  16. 16The Man Who Knew Too Much

    The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

    ★ 7.4/10Also thriller and mystery

    An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

  17. 17Foreign Correspondent

    Foreign Correspondent (1940)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller and mystery

    American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a…

  18. 18Dead Man's Folly

    Dead Man's Folly (1986)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller and mystery

    During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.

  19. 19Topaz

    Topaz (1969)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and thriller

    Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

  20. 20Murder on the Orient Express

    Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and thriller

    In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

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