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Movies Like Dangerous Crossing

If you liked Dangerous Crossing (1953), a mystery and thriller movie directed by Joseph M. Newman, 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 Poseidon Adventure

    The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

    ★ 7.2/10Also thriller

    When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

  2. 2A Blueprint for Murder

    A Blueprint for Murder (1953)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery and thriller

    Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that…

  3. 3Secret Beyond the Door

    Secret Beyond the Door (1947)

    ★ 6.5/10Also mystery and thriller

    After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of…

  4. 4Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

    Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)

    ★ 7.8/10Also mystery and thriller

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.

  5. 5Niagara

    Niagara (1953)

    ★ 6.8/10Also thriller

    Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is…

  6. 6Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

    ★ 8.2/10Also mystery

    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…

  7. 7Moontide

    Moontide (1942)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller

    After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.

  8. 8Sleep, 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.

  9. 9The Philadelphia Experiment

    The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

  10. 10The Lady Vanishes

    The Lady Vanishes (1938)

    ★ 7.4/10Also mystery and thriller

    On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of…

  11. 11Caught

    Caught (1949)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life…

  12. 12Orca

    Orca (1977)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the…

  13. 13The Locket

    The Locket (1946)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller

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

  14. 14Agatha

    Agatha (1979)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and thriller

    England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.

  15. 15Sorry, Wrong Number

    Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

    ★ 6.8/10Also thriller and mystery

    Leona 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.

  16. 16Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also 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…

  17. 17Rebecca

    Rebecca (1940)

    ★ 7.9/10Also mystery and thriller

    Story 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…

  18. 18Black Angel

    Black Angel (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and thriller

    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.

  19. 19The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also mystery and thriller

    After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

  20. 20The Night Walker

    The Night Walker (1964)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller and mystery

    A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.

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