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Movies Like The Black Raven

If you liked The Black Raven (1943), a mystery and crime movie directed by Sam Newfield, 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. 1The Glass Key

    The Glass Key (1942)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and mystery

    A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

  2. 2Shadow of a Doubt

    Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

    ★ 7.5/10Also mystery and crime

    In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle…

  3. 3The 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.

  4. 4Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and 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.

  5. 5The Night Stalker

    The Night Stalker (1972)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery and horror

    Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into…

  6. 6The Lady Vanishes

    The Lady Vanishes (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery and horror

    Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.

  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. 8The Maltese Falcon

    The Maltese Falcon (1941)

    ★ 7.7/10Also mystery and crime

    A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

  9. 9The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and mystery

    Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a…

  10. 10The Night Strangler

    The Night Strangler (1973)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror and mystery

    After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he’s on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every…

  11. 11The Scarlet Claw

    The Scarlet Claw (1944)

    ★ 7/10Also mystery and crime

    When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.

  12. 12The Scapegoat

    The Scapegoat (1959)

    ★ 6.8/10Also mystery and crime

    An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

  13. 13Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and 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…

  14. 14The House of Fear

    The House of Fear (1945)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery and crime

    The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members…

  15. 15Lured

    Lured (1947)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery and crime

    Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has…

  16. 16Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

    Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery and crime

    During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects…

  17. 17Lady 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…

  18. 18Ten Little Indians

    Ten Little Indians (1965)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and mystery

    Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.

  19. 19The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and 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…

  20. 20Night of the Demon

    Night of the Demon (1957)

    ★ 7/10Also horror and mystery

    American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the…

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