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Movies Like The Brighton Strangler

If you liked The Brighton Strangler (1945), a crime and drama movie directed by Max Nosseck, 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. 123 Paces to Baker Street

    23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and thriller

    Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler…

  2. 2Following

    Following (1999)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and thriller

    Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious…

  3. 3Night and the City

    Night and the City (1950)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime

    Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

  4. 4The Talented Mr. Ripley

    The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

    ★ 7.2/10Also thriller and crime

    Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his…

  5. 5Trance

    Trance (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and crime

    A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

  6. 6Victor Frankenstein

    Victor Frankenstein (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and thriller

    While searching for animal body parts at a London circus, radical scientist Victor Frankenstein meets gifted surgeon Igor Strausman. Not only does the brilliant doctor offer Strausman his friendship, but also a chance…

  7. 7Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive (2001)

    ★ 7.8/10Also thriller and drama

    Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher…

  8. 8Blow-Up

    Blow-Up (1966)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and thriller

    A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death…

  9. 9The Boston Strangler

    The Boston Strangler (1968)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and crime

    Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is…

  10. 10The Jackal

    The Jackal (1997)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and thriller

    Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of…

  11. 11Nightmare Alley

    Nightmare Alley (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

    An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

  12. 12Maximum Risk

    Maximum Risk (1996)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller and crime

    Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend…

  13. 13The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and thriller

    London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the…

  14. 14Point Blank

    Point Blank (1967)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and thriller

    After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

  15. 15The Parts You Lose

    The Parts You Lose (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and crime

    An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.

  16. 16Repeat Performance

    Repeat Performance (1947)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and crime

    On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult…

  17. 17Mikey and Nicky

    Mikey and Nicky (1976)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

    Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long…

  18. 18Rope

    Rope (1948)

    ★ 7.9/10Also thriller and crime

    Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

  19. 19Blackmail

    Blackmail (1929)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller

    London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and…

  20. 20Dancer in the Dark

    Dancer in the Dark (2000)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and crime

    Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation…

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