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Movies Like 13 Lead Soldiers

If you liked 13 Lead Soldiers (1948), a crime and mystery movie directed by Frank McDonald, 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. 1Song of the Thin Man

    Song of the Thin Man (1947)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and mystery

    While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on a young bandleader and his musicians, the couple steps in…

  2. 2Another Thin Man

    Another Thin Man (1939)

    ★ 7.1/10Also mystery and crime

    Nick and Nora Charles are back - and this time, they have a baby, a wealthy new client, and another murder to solve! Retired detective Nick is enjoying family life with Nora and their young son, Nick Jr., when…

  3. 3The 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…

  4. 4Shadow of the Thin Man

    Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

    ★ 7/10Also crime and mystery

    While attending a major horse race with their young son, Nick Jr., Nick and Nora Charles witnesse a shocking murder from the crowded grandstand. What first appears to be an isolated killing soon leads to a maze of…

  5. 5Maniac

    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.

  6. 6Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and mystery

    An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman…

  7. 7Nancy 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…

  8. 8Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and mystery

    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.

  9. 9Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and mystery

    Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a…

  10. 10The Wild One

    The Wild One (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another…

  11. 11The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime

    Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

  12. 12They Live by Night

    They Live by Night (1949)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

  13. 13Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

    Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2009)

    ★ 7.6/10Also mystery

    The Mystery Inc. gang takes a trip to Japan and finds themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in a treasure hunt, racing against the vengeful Black Samurai and his Ninja warriors to find the legendary Sword of Fate…

  14. 14Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!

    Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020)

    ★ 7.7/10Also mystery

    Scooby-Doo and the gang team up with their pals, Bill Nye The Science Guy and Elvira Mistress of the Dark, to solve this mystery of gigantic proportions and save Crystal Cove!

  15. 15The Thin Man Goes Home

    The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)

    ★ 7.1/10Also mystery

    Hoping for a peaceful visit with his parents in the small town of Sycamore Springs, Nick Charles and his wife Nora soon find themselves surrounded by old rivalries, family tensions, and a mysterious murder. Nick’s…

  16. 16Big Trouble

    Big Trouble (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad…

  17. 17Spellbound

    Spellbound (1945)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime and mystery

    When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the…

  18. 18Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire

    Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire (2012)

    ★ 7.6/10Also mystery

    Scooby and the gang have their first musical mystery in “Scooby Doo: Music of the Vampire.” It begins when they take a sing-a-long road trip into bayou country to attend the “Vampire-Palooza Festival” – an outdoor fair…

  19. 19Footsteps in the Fog

    Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

  20. 20See Spot Run

    See Spot Run (2001)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    A drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James in the care of her irresponsible…

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