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Movies Like The Great Swindle

If you liked The Great Swindle (1941), a drama and mystery movie directed by Lewis D. Collins, 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. 1Triage

    Triage (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and mystery

    The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

  2. 2Remember

    Remember (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and mystery

    With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

  3. 3The Caveman's Valentine

    The Caveman's Valentine (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery

    Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim…

  4. 4Fedora

    Fedora (1978)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and mystery

    Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.

  5. 5Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    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…

  6. 6The Commuter

    The Commuter (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also mystery

    A 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.

  7. 7Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery

    Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and mystery

    In 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…

  8. 8A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery

    A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020)

    ★ 7.7/10Also mystery and drama

    After being forced into early retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha's Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he's drawn back into crime solving.

  9. 9Laura

    Laura (1944)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and mystery

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

  10. 10Inseparable

    Inseparable (2012)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and mystery

    A troubled engineer faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. American expat Chuck, rescues him from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor.

  11. 11Overdrive

    Overdrive (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery

    Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.

  12. 12The Good Doctor

    The Good Doctor (2011)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and mystery

    Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts…

  13. 13The Deep End of the Ocean

    The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and mystery

    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.

  14. 14Agatha and the Midnight Murders

    Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery and drama

    As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.

  15. 15The Mirror Crack'd

    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.

  16. 16Brand Upon the Brain!

    Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and mystery

    After 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.

  17. 17Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

    Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and mystery

    After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless…

  18. 18Crooked House

    Crooked House (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also mystery

    A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

  19. 19Shock Corridor

    Shock Corridor (1963)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and mystery

    With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.

  20. 20Puncture

    Puncture (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and mystery

    Based on a true story. Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a brilliant but self-destructive Houston attorney whose drug addiction threatens to destroy his career. When he and his law partner Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) take on…

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