Movies Like Strange Cargo

If you liked Strange Cargo (1929), a mystery movie directed by Benjamin Glazer and Arthur Gregor, 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
Hailey Dean Mysteries: Murder, With Love (2016)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery
Former 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…
2
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
3
The Naked City (1948)
★ 7.2/10Also mystery
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
4
Murder in Three Acts (1986)
★ 6/10Also mystery
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
Deathtrap (1982)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
6
Time Without Pity (1957)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery
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…
7
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery
While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on a young bandleader and his musicians, the couple steps in…
8
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
★ 6.5/10Also 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…
9
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1992)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery
At 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.
10
Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery
When 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.
11
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
★ 7/10Also mystery
While attending a major horse race with their young son, Nick Jr., Nick and Nora Charles witnesse a shocking murder from the crowded grandstand. What first appears to be an isolated killing soon leads to a maze of…
12
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
★ 7.1/10Also mystery
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
13
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery
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.
14
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder (2022)
★ 7/10Also mystery
A murder investigation is reignited in a house that is considered haunted by the Lawrenceton locals and where years ago Aurora and Sally, as teenagers, discovered a body.
15
The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery
Aurora Teagarden is a beautiful young librarian with a passion for solving murders. After an exhaustive search for the perfect home, Aurora finally purchases her dream house, unaware of its murky history. As she…
16
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
★ 7.2/10Also mystery
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…
17
Death on the Nile (1978)
★ 7.2/10Also mystery
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.
18
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery
Nancy 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…
19
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game (2018)
★ 7/10Also mystery
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…
20
A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery
Aurora Teagarden and her boyfriend Martin are thrilled when they get an unexpected visit from his niece and her new baby. Their excitement is short lived when his niece disappears and the baby is left behind. Once…