Movies Like Hollywood Story
If you liked Hollywood Story (1951), a mystery movie directed by William Castle, 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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Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also 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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The Glass Key (1942)
★ 6.7/10Also 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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Sleep, My Love (1948)
★ 6.3/10Also mysteryA 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 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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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryJane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryWhen 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.
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Black Angel (1946)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryA 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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The Night Stalker (1972)
★ 6.9/10Also mysteryWisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into…
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The Red House (1947)
★ 6.3/10Also mysteryAn 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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Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also mysteryThere 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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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also 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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Sherlock Jr. (1924)
★ 8/10Also mysteryA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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Hailey Dean Mysteries: Murder, With Love (2016)
★ 7.3/10Also mysteryFormer prosecutor-turned-therapist Hailey Dean is a powerhouse, Mensa bright, and acutely observant. During a tragic week, one of her patients loses her parents to separate fatal accidents along with millions of…
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Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also mysteryIn the small resort town of Lighthouse Cove, everyone knows that the best man for the job is a woman. And that woman is Shannon Hughes, owner of a construction company and an expert in Victorian home restoration and…
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I Bury the Living (1958)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryThe new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of several plot owners by tampering with a certain map. When nobody believes him, he risks his sanity to play God once…
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Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder (2017)
★ 7/10Also mysteryJenn 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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D.O.A. (1949)
★ 6.9/10Also mysteryFrank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his…
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The Night Strangler (1973)
★ 6.7/10Also mysteryAfter 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…
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Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2017)
★ 7/10Also mysteryLibrarian and real crime buff Aurora “Roe” Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead. When his body is found outside of Aurora’s home, she then becomes the main…
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The Assault (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also mysteryAfter a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to piece together the night that she…