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Movies Like Crack-Up

If you liked Crack-Up (1946), a thriller and mystery movie directed by Irving Reis, 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. 1Sleep, My Love

    Sleep, My Love (1948)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and mystery

    A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

  2. 2Double Indemnity

    Double Indemnity (1944)

    ★ 8.1/10Also thriller

    An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

  3. 3Black Angel

    Black Angel (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and thriller

    A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.

  4. 4Whirlpool

    Whirlpool (1950)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller

    The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her…

  5. 5The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window (1944)

    ★ 7.4/10Also thriller

    A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

  6. 6Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

  7. 7Point Blank

    Point Blank (1967)

    ★ 7.1/10Also thriller

    After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

  8. 8Lady in the Lake

    Lady in the Lake (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and thriller

    Private 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…

  9. 9Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also 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…

  10. 10A Blueprint for Murder

    A Blueprint for Murder (1953)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery and thriller

    Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that…

  11. 11Sudden Fear

    Sudden Fear (1952)

    ★ 7.2/10Also thriller

    Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to…

  12. 12T-Men

    T-Men (1947)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller

    Two T-men, U.S. Treasury agents, go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.

  13. 135 Against the House

    5 Against the House (1955)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

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

  14. 14Detour

    Detour (1945)

    ★ 7.2/10Also thriller

    The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

  15. 15Criss Cross

    Criss Cross (1949)

    ★ 7.1/10Also thriller

    An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

  16. 16The House on Telegraph Hill

    The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller and mystery

    Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

  17. 17The Red House

    The Red House (1947)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery and thriller

    An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.

  18. 18D.O.A.

    D.O.A. (1949)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery and thriller

    Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his…

  19. 19Spellbound

    Spellbound (1945)

    ★ 7.4/10Also mystery and thriller

    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…

  20. 20Caught

    Caught (1949)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life…

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