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Movies Like The Double Hour

If you liked The Double Hour (2009), a crime and drama movie directed by Giuseppe Capotondi, 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. 1Spellbound

    Spellbound (1945)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and crime

    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. 2The Mirror Crack'd

    The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crime

    Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

  3. 3Laura

    Laura (1944)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and mystery

    A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

  4. 4Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    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.

  5. 5Strangers on a Train

    Strangers on a Train (1951)

    ★ 7.7/10Also crime and thriller

    A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

  6. 6Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama and 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. 7The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and mystery

    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…

  8. 8Evil Under the Sun

    Evil Under the Sun (1982)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller and crime

    An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.

  9. 9Islands

    Islands (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and drama

    In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is…

  10. 10The Maltese Falcon

    The Maltese Falcon (1941)

    ★ 7.7/10Also mystery and crime

    A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

  11. 11Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and 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…

  12. 12Footsteps in the Fog

    Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller and drama

    A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

  13. 13The Body

    The Body (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller and mystery

    Rich entrepreneur Rebecca Zuin has died from an alleged heart attack, raising suspicions on the part of a police inspector after her body disappears from the morgue. When her handsome young husband becomes a suspect…

  14. 14Lady in the Lake

    Lady in the Lake (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and thriller

    Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to…

  15. 15The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window (1944)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama

    A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

  16. 16Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

    Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)

    ★ 7.8/10Also crime and drama

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

  17. 17Absence of Malice

    Absence of Malice (1981)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells…

  18. 18Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game

    Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game (2018)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and crime

    Crime-solving librarian Aurora Teagarden leaps headfirst into Lawrenceton’s latest murder investigation when her nephew Phillip and his college roommate go missing after the roommate’s girlfriend is found dead…

  19. 19Dial M for Murder

    Dial M for Murder (1954)

    ★ 8/10Also thriller and crime

    When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

  20. 20The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and mystery

    After 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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