Movies Like Sudden Fear
If you liked Sudden Fear (1952), a thriller and crime movie directed by David Miller, 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 Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and thrillerA married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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Dead Again (1991)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerIn 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.
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Careful What You Wish For (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerA guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
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In a Lonely Place (1950)
★ 7.6/10Also thrillerA violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
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52 Pick-Up (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and thrillerHarry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and…
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Chloe (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerCatherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David is cheating on her, so she hires an escort named Chloe to meet David…
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and thrillerThe sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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Dream Lover (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also thrillerNot long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…
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Crime of Passion (1956)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and thrillerKathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a…
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
★ 7.1/10Also thrillerThree childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect…
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Pacific Heights (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerA couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
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The Killing (1956)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and thrillerCareer criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George…
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A Perfect Murder (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and thrillerMillionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his…
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Shirley (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerA famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
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Nightmare Alley (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and thrillerAn ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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Blackwater Lane (2024)
★ 6/10Also thriller and crimeAn American school teacher in England drives past an abandoned car late one night, unaware that the driver was the victim of a murder. As she comes to terms with the realization, seemingly supernatural events start to…
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Unfaithful (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerA New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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Fatale (2020)
★ 6/10Also thrillerAfter a wild one-night stand, successful sports agent Derrick Tyler watches his perfect life slowly disappear when he discovers the sexy and mysterious woman he risked everything for is determined police detective…
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Deep Water (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also thrillerA well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
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Gone Girl (2014)
★ 7.9/10Also thrillerWith his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.