Movies Like Strangers in the Night
If you liked Strangers in the Night (1944), a mystery and crime movie directed by Anthony Mann, 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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Sleep, My Love (1948)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and dramaA 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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The Blue Gardenia (1953)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and mysteryUpon 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…
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1992)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery and dramaAt 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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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and mysteryNancy 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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The Red House (1947)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and dramaAn old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
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Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder (2017)
★ 7/10Also mystery and crimeJenn buys an old reel-to-reel recorder at a garage sale only to find that it includes the sound of a man pleading for his life. When the former owner of the recorder, a retired therapist, is found murdered in a…
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Lady in the Lake (1946)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crimePrivate 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…
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Murder in Three Acts (1986)
★ 6/10Also crime and dramaIn 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.
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The Locket (1946)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and crimeA dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and mysteryA three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
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Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
★ 7.5/10Also mystery and crimeIn sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle…
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Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and mysteryAfter returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
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A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020)
★ 7.7/10Also mystery and dramaAfter being forced into early retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha's Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he's drawn back into crime solving.
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and crimeOne-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
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Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also mystery and crimeThere is excitement in the air when a Hollywood crew comes to Lawrenceton to film a movie about the town’s sleuthy librarian, Aurora Teagarden. However, when the film’s leading lady is found murdered in her dressing…
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Black Angel (1946)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crimeA 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.
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On Dangerous Ground (1951)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and crimeA big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
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The Glass Key (1942)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and mysteryA crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also mystery and crimeBrilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding is trying to unearth evidence of a 17th century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years…
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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crimeJane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.