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Movies Like A Blueprint for Murder

If you liked A Blueprint for Murder (1953), a mystery and crime movie directed by Andrew L. Stone, 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. 1The Mirror Crack'd

    The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crime

    Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

  2. 2Black Angel

    Black Angel (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crime

    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.

  3. 3The Glass Key

    The Glass Key (1942)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and mystery

    A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

  4. 4Sleep, 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.

  5. 5D.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…

  6. 6Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and thriller

    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…

  7. 7Fallen 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…

  8. 8The 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…

  9. 9Point Blank

    Point Blank (1967)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and 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.

  10. 10Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and thriller

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

  11. 11Song 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…

  12. 12Shadow of a Doubt

    Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

    ★ 7.5/10Also thriller and mystery

    In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle…

  13. 13Lady 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…

  14. 14The Locket

    The Locket (1946)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and thriller

    A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

  15. 155 Against the House

    5 Against the House (1955)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and thriller

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

  16. 16Murder 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.

  17. 17The Web

    The Web (1947)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and thriller

    A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

  18. 18Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

    ★ 8.2/10Also mystery and crime

    An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a…

  19. 19Maniac

    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.

  20. 20Pickup on South Street

    Pickup on South Street (1953)

    ★ 7.4/10Also thriller and crime

    In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified…

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