Movies Like Clue of the Twisted Candle
If you liked Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960), a crime movie directed by Allan Davis, 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 Glass Key (1942)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeA crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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The Blue Gardenia (1953)
★ 6.5/10Also crimeUpon 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…
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Murder in Three Acts (1986)
★ 6/10Also crimeIn 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.
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The Naked City (1948)
★ 7.2/10Also crimeAfter a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
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The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
★ 5.9/10Also crimeAfter two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
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Time Without Pity (1957)
★ 6.5/10Also crimeAlec 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…
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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeJane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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Two-Way Stretch (1960)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeThree criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must…
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A Study in Terror (1965)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeWhen Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after…
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Wrong Cops (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeA group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot.
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Witness to Murder (1954)
★ 6.3/10Also crimeA woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
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Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeWhen 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.
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Each Dawn I Die (1939)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeA corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1992)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeAt 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.
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5 Against the House (1955)
★ 5.9/10Also crimeFormer war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeA spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
★ 7.5/10Also crimeRecently 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.
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also crimeNancy 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…
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Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
★ 7/10Also crimeA Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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The Locket (1946)
★ 6.3/10Also crimeA dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.