Movies Like Cast a Dark Shadow
If you liked Cast a Dark Shadow (1955), a thriller movie directed by Lewis Gilbert, 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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Conflict (1945)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerUnhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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Nightfall (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also thrillerAn innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
★ 7.1/10Also thrillerA married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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Double Indemnity (1944)
★ 8.1/10Also thrillerAn 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.
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Sudden Fear (1952)
★ 7.2/10Also thrillerActor 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…
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Detour (1945)
★ 7.2/10Also thrillerThe 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.
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
★ 7.5/10Also thrillerA socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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The Naked City (1948)
★ 7.2/10Also thrillerAfter 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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Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
★ 7/10Also thrillerA Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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The Strange Woman (1946)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerIn early 19th century New England, an unscrupulous woman uses her beauty and wits to seduce, deceive and control the men around her.
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Gaslight (1944)
★ 7.5/10Also thrillerA newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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Sleep, My Love (1948)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerA 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.
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Rebecca (1940)
★ 7.9/10Also thrillerStory of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips…
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Deathtrap (1982)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerA Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
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The Locket (1946)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerA dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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Dial M for Murder (1954)
★ 8/10Also thrillerWhen her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
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Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerWhen 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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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also thrillerLeona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
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While the City Sleeps (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also thrillerNewspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".