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Movies that feel likeDial M for Murder (1954)

When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

If you loved Dial M for Murder, the closest films we have are Rope (1948), Blackmail (1929) and Sabotage (1936). All three share Dial M for Murder's tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Wrong Man (1956).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfred Hitchcocktensegrittycontemplativeromantic
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Rope
1948 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 93%★ 7.9thriller · crime · drama

Alfred Hitchcock working the same nerve twice

The difference: Easier on the romance than Dial M for Murder

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

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Blackmail
1929 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 88%★ 6.9drama · thriller · crimePrime Video

Both are Alfred Hitchcock's work, and they rhyme

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1920s show

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

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Sabotage
1936 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 91%★ 7drama · thriller · crimeMax

Tense and gritty in the same breath

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.

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Spellbound
1945 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 86%★ 7.5drama · crime · mystery

Both land stillness and romance at once

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Dial M for Murder does

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

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Marnie
1964 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 78%★ 7.1thriller · mystery · romance

One thread runs through both: blackmail

Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.

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To Catch a Thief
1955 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%★ 7.4mystery · romance · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: jealousy

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

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North by Northwest
1959 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 97%★ 8.2thriller · adventure

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

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Notorious
1946 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%★ 7.9drama · romance · thriller

Drama built on stillness, twice over

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

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The Wrong Man
1956 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 93%★ 7.4crime · dramaMax

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

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Carlito's Way
1993 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 84%★ 7.9crime · drama · thrillerPrime VideoStarz

Both are built on the same subject: love

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

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Suspicion
1941 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 97%★ 7.2mystery · romance · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: marriage

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

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Victoria
2015 · dir. Sebastian Schipper
🍅 82%★ 7.5crime · thriller · romance

Romantic thriller in both cases

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

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