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Movies Like Cover Girl Killer

If you liked Cover Girl Killer (1959), a crime and drama movie directed by Terry Bishop, 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 Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and thriller

    London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the…

  2. 2Lured

    Lured (1947)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and thriller

    Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has…

  3. 3Natural Born Killers

    Natural Born Killers (1994)

    ★ 7/10Also crime and thriller

    Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

  4. 4Nightcrawler

    Nightcrawler (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also crime and drama

    When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news…

  5. 5Blackmail

    Blackmail (1929)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller

    London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and…

  6. 6True Story

    True Story (2015)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

  7. 7Mulholland Falls

    Mulholland Falls (1996)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and thriller

    In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

  8. 8Cruising

    Cruising (1980)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller

    When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the gay S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.

  9. 9Blitz

    Blitz (2011)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and thriller

    A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.

  10. 10While the City Sleeps

    While the City Sleeps (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller and drama

    Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

  11. 11Blow-Up

    Blow-Up (1966)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and thriller

    A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death…

  12. 12Luther: The Fallen Sun

    Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller

    A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break…

  13. 13Tightrope

    Tightrope (1984)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and crime

    Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his…

  14. 14The Ritual Killer

    The Ritual Killer (2023)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller and drama

    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…

  15. 15London Boulevard

    London Boulevard (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and crime

    A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.

  16. 16Faces in the Crowd

    Faces in the Crowd (2011)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and crime

    Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.

  17. 17Deceiver

    Deceiver (1997)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for…

  18. 18Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and thriller

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

  19. 19Mindcage

    Mindcage (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller and crime

    Detectives Jake Doyle and Mary Kelly seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist when a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist's brilliant but twisted psyche, she and…

  20. 20The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama

    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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