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Movies Like Drop Dead, Gorgeous

If you liked Drop Dead, Gorgeous (2017), a crime and drama movie, 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. 1Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and mystery

    An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman…

  2. 2The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and mystery

    After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

  3. 3Laura

    Laura (1944)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and mystery

    A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

  4. 4The Mirror Crack'd

    The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crime

    Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

  5. 5Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    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.

  6. 6They Live by Night

    They Live by Night (1949)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and romance

    An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

  7. 7The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and 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…

  8. 8Sleep, My Love

    Sleep, My Love (1948)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery and drama

    A 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.

  9. 9They Won't Believe Me

    They Won't Believe Me (1947)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

  10. 10The Big Combo

    The Big Combo (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and crime

    Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

  11. 11Footsteps in the Fog

    Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and crime

    A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

  12. 12You Only Live Once

    You Only Live Once (1937)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham…

  13. 13Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  14. 14Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

    Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10Also mystery and crime

    There 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…

  15. 15Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

    Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1992)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery and drama

    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.

  16. 16Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

    Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also mystery and crime

    Librarian 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…

  17. 17The Interview

    The Interview (1998)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and mystery

    A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?

  18. 18The Paradine Case

    The Paradine Case (1947)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery

    In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. Though happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his enigmatic client and…

  19. 19A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

    A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2017)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery and drama

    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…

  20. 20Lady in the Lake

    Lady in the Lake (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crime

    Private 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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