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Movies Like The Boy Detectives Club – The Glow-in-the-Dark Monster

If you liked The Boy Detectives Club – The Glow-in-the-Dark Monster (1957), a mystery movie directed by Hitoshi Ishihara, 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 Kid Detective

    The Kid Detective (2020)

    ★ 6.6/10Also mystery

    A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered…

  2. 2Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

    Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)

    ★ 6.7/10Also mystery

    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.

  3. 3The Black Book

    The Black Book (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also mystery

    After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.

  4. 4Trigger Point

    Trigger Point (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery

    Nicolas Shaw is a retired U.S. special operative who becomes part of an elite 'invisible' team that quietly takes out the worst villains around the world.

  5. 5Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly

    Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020)

    ★ 7.3/10Also mystery

    Aurora's high school reunion turns deadly when a body is found in the hotel pool. Aurora and her Real Murders Club help investigate which classmate was most likely to kill.

  6. 6The Ritual Killer

    The Ritual Killer (2023)

    ★ 5.8/10Also mystery

    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. 7Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder

    Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also mystery

    A murder investigation is reignited in a house that is considered haunted by the Lawrenceton locals and where years ago Aurora and Sally, as teenagers, discovered a body.

  8. 8Thirteen 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…

  9. 9The Night Strangler

    The Night Strangler (1973)

    ★ 6.7/10Also mystery

    After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he’s on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every…

  10. 10The 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.

  11. 11The Late Show

    The Late Show (1977)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    An over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who was involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and…

  12. 12Suburbicon

    Suburbicon (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery

    In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect…

  13. 13Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

    ★ 6.4/10Also mystery

    Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set…

  14. 14A Fugitive from the Past

    A Fugitive from the Past (1965)

    ★ 7.3/10Also mystery

    Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.

  15. 15Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

    Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)

    ★ 7.5/10Also mystery

    Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?

  16. 16Overdrive

    Overdrive (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery

    Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.

  17. 17The Thursday Murder Club

    The Thursday Murder Club (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also mystery

    A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic crime caper.

  18. 18Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also 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.

  19. 19The International

    The International (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their…

  20. 20Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

    Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1992)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery

    At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.

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