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Movies Like An Inspector Calls

If you liked An Inspector Calls (1954), a crime and drama movie directed by Guy Hamilton, 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. 1Mildred Pierce

    Mildred Pierce (1945)

    ★ 7.6/10Also crime and drama

    A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

  2. 2Shadow of a Doubt

    Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

    ★ 7.5/10Also mystery and crime

    In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle…

  3. 3Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  4. 4The File on Thelma Jordon

    The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime

    Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

  5. 5Pitfall

    Pitfall (1948)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime

    An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

  6. 6Glengarry Glen Ross

    Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama

    An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.

  7. 7Force of Evil

    Force of Evil (1950)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and drama

    Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring…

  8. 8Strangers on a Train

    Strangers on a Train (1951)

    ★ 7.7/10Also crime and drama

    A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

  9. 9The 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…

  10. 10Laura

    Laura (1944)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and mystery

    A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

  11. 11The Locket

    The Locket (1946)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and crime

    A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

  12. 125 Against the House

    5 Against the House (1955)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama

    Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

  13. 13A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

    A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2017)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery and drama

    Aurora Teagarden and her boyfriend Martin are thrilled when they get an unexpected visit from his niece and her new baby. Their excitement is short lived when his niece disappears and the baby is left behind. Once…

  14. 14Where the Sidewalk Ends

    Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama

    A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

  15. 15The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and mystery

    After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

  16. 16Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

    Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1992)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery and drama

    At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.

  17. 17Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    In 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.

  18. 18Nancy 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…

  19. 19Angels with Dirty Faces

    Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama

    Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

  20. 20Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

    Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10Also mystery and crime

    There is excitement in the air when a Hollywood crew comes to Lawrenceton to film a movie about the town’s sleuthy librarian, Aurora Teagarden. However, when the film’s leading lady is found murdered in her dressing…

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