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Movies that feel like Dark Passage (1947)

If you loved Dark Passage, the closest films we have are The Naked City (1948), The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and Stray Dog (1949). All three share Dark Passage's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

πŸ… 90% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Delmer Davestensetwistyatmospheric

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The Naked City
1948 Β· dir. Jules Dassin
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.5crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: film noir

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Dark Passage does

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

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The Lady from Shanghai
1947 Β· dir. Orson Welles
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.5mystery Β· crime Β· thriller

San Francisco shapes both of them

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

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Stray Dog
1949 Β· dir. Akira Kurosawa
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.8crime Β· drama Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: film noir

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

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The Killers
1946 Β· dir. Robert Siodmak
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.7crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then twists

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

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The Third Man
1949 Β· dir. Carol Reed
πŸ… 99%β˜… 8.1thriller Β· mystery

Atmospheric thriller in both cases

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

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The Big Sleep
1946 Β· dir. Howard Hawks
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9mystery Β· crime Β· thriller

Mystery built on tension, twice over

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

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Shadow of a Doubt
1943 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.8thriller Β· mystery Β· crime

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

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 may be hiding a terrible secretβ€”and that danger has quietly entered her home.

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Detour
1945 Β· dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.3drama Β· thriller

Mystery with a pulse of atmosphere, in both cases

The difference: Not nearly as twisty as Dark Passage

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

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Criss Cross
1949 Β· dir. Robert Siodmak
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.4crime Β· thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: Missing the twists of Dark Passage

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

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In a Lonely Place
1950 Β· dir. Nicholas Ray
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9thriller Β· drama Β· romance

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

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Odd Man Out
1947 Β· dir. Carol Reed
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Both work the same atmosphere

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

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The Big Clock
1948 Β· dir. John Farrow
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6crime Β· thriller

Both are thriller through and through

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.

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