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Movies Like Spreading Ground

If you liked Spreading Ground (2000), a drama and mystery movie directed by Derek Vanlint, 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 Interview

    The Interview (1998)

    ★ 6.8/10Also mystery and drama

    A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?

  2. 2The Mirror Crack'd

    The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery

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

  3. 3Righteous Kill

    Righteous Kill (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery and drama

    Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the…

  4. 4Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

    Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

    ★ 6.7/10Also mystery and drama

    Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.

  5. 5Crooked House

    Crooked House (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also mystery

    A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

  6. 6The Ritual Killer

    The Ritual Killer (2023)

    ★ 5.8/10Also mystery and drama

    Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an…

  7. 7Marlowe

    Marlowe (1969)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery and drama

    Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are…

  8. 8Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also drama 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. 9Thirteen at Dinner

    Thirteen at Dinner (1985)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery

    Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound…

  10. 10Dead Man's Folly

    Dead Man's Folly (1986)

    ★ 6.4/10Also mystery and drama

    During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.

  11. 11Cleaner

    Cleaner (2007)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery

    Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may…

  12. 12Lady in the Lake

    Lady in the Lake (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery

    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…

  13. 13The Seven-Ups

    The Seven-Ups (1973)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.

  14. 14Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

    Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and mystery

    After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless…

  15. 15Vice Squad

    Vice Squad (1982)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

  16. 16Murder on the Orient Express

    Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and mystery

    In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

  17. 17Mindcage

    Mindcage (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery

    Detectives Jake Doyle and Mary Kelly seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist when a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist's brilliant but twisted psyche, she and…

  18. 18Striking Distance

    Striking Distance (1993)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery

    Demoted Pittsburgh cop Tom Hardy works river patrol while a serial killer targets women from his past, forcing him to conduct an unauthorized investigation to prove his innocence and expose a dirty cop.

  19. 19The Organization

    The Organization (1971)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery

    After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for…

  20. 20The Caveman's Valentine

    The Caveman's Valentine (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery

    Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim…

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