Movies Like Last Night in Urbana
If you liked Last Night in Urbana (2025), a crime and thriller movie directed by Aaron Anastos, 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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Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and thrillerWhen 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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Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeA spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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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 crime and thrillerAn innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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The Glass Key (1942)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and thrillerA crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Oscar Shaw (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and thrillerAfter retiring from the police force, a relentless detective haunted by the tragic loss of his closest friend sets out on a perilous quest for vengeance, seeking redemption and fighting to restore justice to the…
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The Naked City (1948)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and thrillerAfter 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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Black Widow (1987)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerFederal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple…
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Time Without Pity (1957)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and thrillerAlec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a…
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Conflict (1945)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerUnhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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Lady in the Lake (1946)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and crimePrivate 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…
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Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
★ 7/10Also crimeWhile 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…
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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and thrillerJane 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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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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Pickup on South Street (1953)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller and crimeIn New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified…
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Fallen Angel (1945)
★ 6.6/10Also crimeAn 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…
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The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and crimeAfter two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
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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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LaRoy, Texas (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and thrillerBroke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.
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The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and thrillerA veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.