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Movies Like The Card Player

If you liked The Card Player (2004), a crime and horror movie directed by Dario Argento, 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. 1Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and mystery

    When 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.

  2. 2The Night Stalker

    The Night Stalker (1972)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery and horror

    Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into…

  3. 3The Night Strangler

    The Night Strangler (1973)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror and mystery

    After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he’s on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every…

  4. 4The Glass Key

    The Glass Key (1942)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and mystery

    A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

  5. 5The Spider Woman

    The Spider Woman (1943)

    ★ 7/10Also mystery and crime

    Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.

  6. 6The Mirror Crack'd

    The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crime

    Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

  7. 7Lady in the Lake

    Lady in the Lake (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and thriller

    Private 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…

  8. 8Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

    Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery and crime

    During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects…

  9. 9The Lady Vanishes

    The Lady Vanishes (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and mystery

    Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.

  10. 10Rabid Dogs

    Rabid Dogs (1995)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and thriller

    Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.

  11. 11The 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…

  12. 12The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and mystery

    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. 13The Mechanic

    The Mechanic (1972)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and thriller

    Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and…

  14. 14Race with the Devil

    Race with the Devil (1975)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller

    Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

  15. 15He Walked by Night

    He Walked by Night (1949)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller and crime

    Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.

  16. 16Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and mystery

    Nancy 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…

  17. 17The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

    ★ 6.8/10Also mystery and thriller

    When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

  18. 18This Gun for Hire

    This Gun for Hire (1942)

    ★ 7/10Also crime and thriller

    Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new…

  19. 19Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and thriller

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

  20. 20Indemnity

    Indemnity (2022)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and crime

    An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.

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