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Movies Like The Stranger Within a Woman

If you liked The Stranger Within a Woman (1966), a crime and drama movie directed by Mikio Naruse, 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. 1Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

    Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama

    A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of…

  2. 2Careful What You Wish For

    Careful What You Wish For (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

  3. 3The File on Thelma Jordon

    The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime

    Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

  4. 4Presumed Innocent

    Presumed Innocent (1990)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

  5. 5Winged Creatures

    Winged Creatures (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

    A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an…

  6. 6Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    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. 7Witness to Murder

    Witness to Murder (1954)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

  8. 8Anatomy of a Murder

    Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

    ★ 7.8/10Also crime and drama

    Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District…

  9. 9Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

    Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime

    Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?

  10. 10A Walk Among the Tombstones

    A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

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

  11. 11Gone Girl

    Gone Girl (2014)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

  12. 12The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    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…

  13. 13Reversal of Fortune

    Reversal of Fortune (1990)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and crime

    Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

  14. 14Thirteen at Dinner

    Thirteen at Dinner (1985)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime

    Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound…

  15. 15Monster

    Monster (2021)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

    The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.

  16. 16Villain

    Villain (2010)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama

    Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His…

  17. 17In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood (1967)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama

    After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

  18. 18Vengeance Is Mine

    Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama

    A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

  19. 19Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs

    Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs (2014)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and crime

    Cult leader Warren Jeffs rises to power in the polygamist Mormon sect once headed by his late father, but some of his wives fight back to bring him to justice. Based on a true story.

  20. 20Dead Man's Folly

    Dead Man's Folly (1986)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and drama

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

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