Movies Like Cecile Is Dead
If you liked Cecile Is Dead (1944), a crime and mystery movie directed by Maurice Tourneur, 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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Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
★ 7/10Also crime and mysteryFour women are murdered, each knifed and, despite torn garments, remain virtuous. As famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realise that for the elusive man that he suspects to be…
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Maigret Sees Red (1963)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and mysteryGangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the FBI and a series of underworld figures…
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Deadly Circuit (1983)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and mysteryA P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and mysteryNancy 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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Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and mysteryActress 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…
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Without Apparent Motive (1971)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and mysteryA series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
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Winged Creatures (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also crimeA 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…
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Suburbicon (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and mysteryIn the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect…
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Pasha (1968)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeSix months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through…
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Maigret and the Dead Lover (2026)
★ 6/10Also mystery and crimeCommissioner Maigret rushes to the Quai d’Orsay with Lieutenant Janvier. There, they find Mademoiselle Larrieu in a state of shock. That very morning, she discovered the bullet-riddled body of Mr. Berthier-Lagès, a…
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The Last Deadly Mission (2008)
★ 6.4/10Also crimeA washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.
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God Is a Bullet (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also crimeVice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the…
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Squad 36 (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeForced out of his elite unit, a troubled cop launches his own rogue investigation when mysterious killings claim the lives of his former colleagues.
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and mysteryPrivate investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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The Number 23 (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and crimeAnimal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
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Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
★ 7.2/10Also crimeCharlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters…
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Inspector Lavardin (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and mysteryInspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
★ 7.8/10Also crime and mysteryThree detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
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Appointment with Death (1988)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and mysteryEmily 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…
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The Blue Gardenia (1953)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and mysteryUpon 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…