Movies Like The Shadows
If you liked The Shadows (2007), a mystery movie directed by Guillermo R. Rodríguez, 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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Verity (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryLowen Ashleigh, hired to ghostwrite for best-selling author Verity Crawford, uncovers Verity's autobiographical notes, and becomes involved in what may prove to be a lethal conspiracy.
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also mysteryOver the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
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Spellbound (1945)
★ 7.4/10Also mysteryWhen 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…
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The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryA psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.
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The Girl on the Train (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryRachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something…
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Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also mysteryRaimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for…
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also mysteryWest Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting…
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Haunted (1995)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryProfessor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching…
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The Number 23 (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryAnimal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also mysteryMill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family…
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Black Butterfly (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryPaul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried…
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Crooked House (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryA 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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Secret Window (2004)
★ 6.6/10Also mysteryMort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey…
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The Detective (1968)
★ 5.9/10Also mysteryNew York City Police detective Joe Leland investigates the grisly murder of Teddy Leikman, the gay son of a politically influential department store owner. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption…
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Lady in the Lake (1946)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryPrivate eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to…
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Shirley (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryA famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
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Deathtrap (1982)
★ 6.7/10Also mysteryA Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryA young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
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Urban Legend (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryA college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
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The Infernal Machine (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryReclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his…