Movies Like Run a Crooked Mile

If you liked Run a Crooked Mile (1969), a tv movie and thriller movie directed by Gene Levitt, 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
Spellbound (1945)
★ 7.4/10Also 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…
2
Radius (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the…
3
The Bad Seed (2018)
★ 7/10Also thriller and tv movie
A widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.
4
Hailey Dean Mysteries: Murder, With Love (2016)
★ 7.3/10Also tv movie
Former prosecutor-turned-therapist Hailey Dean is a powerhouse, Mensa bright, and acutely observant. During a tragic week, one of her patients loses her parents to separate fatal accidents along with millions of…
5
Sleeping Dogs (2024)
★ 7/10Also thriller
Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, is forced to revisit a case he can't remember. As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece together the brutal evidence from a…
6
Dead Man's Folly (1986)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and tv movie
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
7
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also tv movie and thriller
At a gathering of mystery and true crime fans, Aurora Teagarden’s nephew, Phillip, is accused of murder when an unplanned onstage blackout during the play in which he is performing ends, revealing Phillip holding the…
8
Murder! (1930)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by…
9
The Naked City (1948)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
10
Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also tv movie
When an old friend of New York Sentinel Crosswords editor Tess Harper is found murdered on the very day her puzzle includes his proposal of marriage, Tess unofficially teams up with Detective Logan O’Connor to find the…
11
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983 (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller and tv movie
Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up…
12
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
13
Sleep, My Love (1948)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
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.
14
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
15
Blind Horizon (2003)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...
16
Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also tv movie
Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding is trying to unearth evidence of a 17th century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years…
17
180 (2026)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
When an unexpected road rage incident puts his son in critical condition, an enraged father spirals down a dark path of emotional turmoil and vengeance.
18
Crooked House (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
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.
19
Insomnia (2002)
★ 7/10Also thriller
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
20
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also tv movie
Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?