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Movies Like The Little Engineer

If you liked The Little Engineer (1915), a thriller movie directed by J.P. McGowan, 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. 1Strange but True

    Strange but True (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.

  2. 2Black Widow

    Black Widow (1987)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple…

  3. 3Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    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.

  4. 4Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

  5. 5Sleep, My Love

    Sleep, My Love (1948)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller

    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.

  6. 6No Name on the Bullet

    No Name on the Bullet (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

  7. 7The Last Voyage

    The Last Voyage (1960)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert Adams is reluctant to evacuate the steamship. While the crew fights…

  8. 8Safety Last!

    Safety Last! (1923)

    ★ 7.7/10Also thriller

    When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

  9. 9Peeping Tom

    Peeping Tom (1960)

    ★ 7.4/10Also thriller

    Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He…

  10. 10Conflict

    Conflict (1945)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller

    Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.

  11. 11The Escapist

    The Escapist (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an…

  12. 12The MacKintosh Man

    The MacKintosh Man (1973)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out…

  13. 13The Philadelphia Experiment

    The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

  14. 14The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also thriller

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

  15. 15What's the Matter with Helen?

    What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

    Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.

  16. 16Nancy

    Nancy (2018)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller

    Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.

  17. 17The Lady Vanishes

    The Lady Vanishes (1938)

    ★ 7.4/10Also thriller

    On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of…

  18. 185 Against the House

    5 Against the House (1955)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

    Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

  19. 19Space/Time

    Space/Time (2025)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller

    After a fatal test shuts down their project, a disgraced team of scientists enters the criminal underworld to rebuild a forbidden space-bending engine that could rescue humanity or annihilate it entirely.

  20. 20The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp (1950)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also…

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