Movies Like The Wednesday Woman

If you liked The Wednesday Woman (2000), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Christopher Leitch, 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
Pitfall (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
2
The Lost Weekend (1945)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a…
3
The Dark Corner (1946)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in…
4
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
5
The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
6
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
7
The Truth About Emanuel (2013)
★ 6/10Also drama
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
8
Small Things Like These (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit…
9
The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
A 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.
10
Time Without Pity (1957)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a…
11
Mildred Pierce (1945)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
12
Won't Back Down (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for…
13
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
14
Dial M for Murder (1954)
★ 8/10Also drama
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
15
Come Back, Little Sheba (1953)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.
16
My Salinger Year (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
17
The Locket (1946)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
18
Flowers in the Attic (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie
After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
19
Madame X (1966)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her. She is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity in order to save the…
20
An Inspector Calls (1954)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in…