Movies Like Murder Backstage
If you liked Murder Backstage (1960), a mystery and crime movie directed by Dinos Katsouridis, 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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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crimeJane 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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Marlowe (1969)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and mysteryMysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are…
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The Interview (1998)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and mysteryA duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?
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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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Welcome to the Punch (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also crimeWhen notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
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Righteous Kill (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and mysteryTwo veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the…
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Murder in Three Acts (1986)
★ 6/10Also crime and mysteryIn 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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Crooked House (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and crimeA private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
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Cult Killer (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and crimeA private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
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Dead Man's Folly (1986)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and mysteryDuring 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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Striking Distance (1993)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and mysteryDemoted Pittsburgh cop Tom Hardy works river patrol while a serial killer targets women from his past, forcing him to conduct an unauthorized investigation to prove his innocence and expose a dirty cop.
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Sea of Love (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also crimeSeen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from…
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Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery and crimeFaced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.
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Gang Related (1997)
★ 6.4/10Also crimeAfter murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.
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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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Zero Effect (1998)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and crimeDaryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what to do with himself when he's not…
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God Told Me To (1976)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and mysteryA New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random citizens who claim that 'God told them to'.
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and mysteryPrivate eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled…
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Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and mysteryTravelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and mysteryA police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.