Movies Like Name the Woman
If you liked Name the Woman (1934), a mystery movie directed by Albert S. Rogell, 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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The Independent (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also mysteryIt's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its first viable independent candidate. Reporting history as it's made…
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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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The Commuter (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryA businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
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Cleaner (2007)
★ 6.1/10Also mysterySingle father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may…
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State of Play (2009)
★ 6.8/10Also mysteryWhen a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
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All the President's Men (1976)
★ 7.7/10Also mysteryDuring the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
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The Batman (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also mysteryIn his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
★ 7.8/10Also mysteryThree detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
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The Black Book (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also mysteryAfter his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
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Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
★ 5.9/10Also mysteryActress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound…
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The Infernal Machine (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryReclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his…
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Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)
★ 6.7/10Also mysteryFaced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.
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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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Abigail (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryA young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going…
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Absolution (2024)
★ 5.9/10Also mysteryAn aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children…
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Ca$h (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also mysteryA stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a…
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Cult Killer (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryA private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
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Deception (2008)
★ 6/10Also mysteryAs a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's…
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Bordertown (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also mysteryAmerican corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for…
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The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
★ 7.1/10Also mysteryA mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order…