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Movies Like Strangers' Meeting

If you liked Strangers' Meeting (1957), a crime movie directed by Robert Day, 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. 1Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    When 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.

  2. 2Accident Man

    Accident Man (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.

  3. 3All the Devils Are Here

    All the Devils Are Here (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    After a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.

  4. 4The Crash

    The Crash (2026)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    A teen slams her car into a building, killing her boyfriend and his friend. What seems like a tragic accident becomes a murder case.

  5. 5Fast Charlie

    Fast Charlie (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.

  6. 6The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while…

  7. 7Shimmer Lake

    Shimmer Lake (2017)

    ★ 6/10Also crime

    Shot in reverse day-by-day through a week—a local sheriff embarks on a quest to unlock the mystery of three small-town criminals and a bank heist gone wrong.

  8. 8Killer Heat

    Killer Heat (2024)

    ★ 5.8/10Also crime

    An expat PI is hired to investigate a suspicious death in Crete, Greece, where jealousies run deep amongst the victim's powerful family.

  9. 9Anon

    Anon (2018)

    ★ 6/10Also crime

    Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles…

  10. 10Winged Creatures

    Winged Creatures (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime

    A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an…

  11. 11Maternal Instinct

    Maternal Instinct (2026)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime

    Police pull over a woman who claims she just gave birth. But the baby — and the blood — aren't hers. Twisted lies unravel in this true-crime documentary.

  12. 12Ca$h

    Ca$h (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime

    A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a…

  13. 13The Jackal

    The Jackal (1997)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime

    Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of…

  14. 14Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman

    Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase…

  15. 15Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

  16. 16Sirocco

    Sirocco (1951)

    ★ 6/10Also crime

    A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

  17. 17Motor City

    Motor City (2026)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    In 1970s Detroit, John Miller falls for a local gangster's girl and lands in prison for a crime he didn't commit. With his life ruined, Miller plots revenge against the man who took his girl away.

  18. 18God Is a Bullet

    God Is a Bullet (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the…

  19. 19Across 110th Street

    Across 110th Street (1972)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time…

  20. 20Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    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…

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