Movies Like The Pastor Who Preys
If you liked The Pastor Who Preys (2026), a mystery and thriller movie directed by Linden Ashby, 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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Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also mystery and tv movieTravelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?
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Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also tv movie and mysteryPolice Chief Jesse Stone now presides over the quiet, seaside village of Paradise, Massachusetts. When the facts don't add up in a brutal Boston-area murder case, Jesse opens an investigation filled with surprises…
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Desert Dawn (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and thrillerA newly appointed small-town sheriff and his begrudging deputy get tangled up in a web of lies and corruption involving shady businessmen and the cartel while investigating the murder of a mysterious woman.
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Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and mysteryJesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a…
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All the Devils Are Here (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and thrillerAfter a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.
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Dead Man's Folly (1986)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller 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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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and mysteryWhen a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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Hierarchy (2025)
★ 6/10Also thriller and tv movieIn an undisclosed area of Texas after two adoptive brothers become entangled in criminal activity, forced to evade law enforcement and the greedy Russian mafia.
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The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and thrillerWhen teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary, Karl signs on as a new substitute…
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Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also mystery and thrillerA fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…
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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller and mysteryWhen Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and into the affluent world of a bestselling writer who exploits troubled…
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The Ritual Killer (2023)
★ 5.8/10Also mystery and thrillerUnable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an…
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Garage Sale Mystery: The Beach Murder (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and tv movieAnnie Winters is a long-time customer of Rags-to-Riches and her husband Garret is a wealthy internet entrepreneur. When Garret’s dead body is found washed up on the beach, it looks like an apparent surfing accident…
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Shimmer Lake (2017)
★ 6/10Also thriller and mysteryShot in reverse day-by-day through a week—a local sheriff embarks on a quest to unlock the mystery of three small-town criminals and a bank heist gone wrong.
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Stowaway (2022)
★ 6/10Also mystery and thrillerA tenacious party girl fights to survive after three thieves commandeer her luxury yacht. Unable to escape and trapped on the yacht at high seas, the prey becomes the hunter as she turns the tables on the intruders and…
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Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (1989)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery and tv movieWhile on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
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Suburbicon (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller 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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Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also tv movie and mysteryJesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she…
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5lbs of Pressure (2024)
★ 6/10Also thriller and tv movieFresh out of prison after serving time for murder, Adam returns to his old stomping grounds to seek out a son who doesn't know him. Eli, the brother of the man he killed is looking for revenge. Mike, is trying to…
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Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and mysteryPolice Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and…