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Movies that feel like In a Lonely Place (1950)

If you loved In a Lonely Place, the closest films we have are The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Gilda (1946) and Stray Dog (1949). All three share In a Lonely Place's tense and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Criterion Channel and Artiflix and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 96% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Nicholas Raytensecontemplativeromantictendertwistyatmospheric

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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 Β· dir. Tay Garnett
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.4drama Β· romance Β· crime

Two things both keep coming back to: film noir and murder

The difference: Missing the twists of In a Lonely Place

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

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Gilda
1946 Β· dir. Charles Vidor
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.6romance Β· drama Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: film noir

The difference: None of the twists In a Lonely Place is built on

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

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

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

The difference: Leans harder into crime than In a Lonely Place does

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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Dark Passage
1947 Β· dir. Delmer Daves
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.5thriller Β· mystery

The same mix in both: tension, then twists

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

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

Both are built on the same subject: murder

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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Diabolique
1955 Β· dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.1thriller Β· mystery

Common ground: black and white

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

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

Atmospheric thriller, and it commits to that

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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Laura
1944 Β· dir. Otto Preminger
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.9drama Β· mystery

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

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

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

Drama built on tension, twice over

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

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Young and Innocent
1937 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.8thriller Β· romance Β· mystery

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.

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Rebecca
1940 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 98%β˜… 8.1mystery Β· romance Β· thriller

Both lean on romance more than on mystery

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

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

Contemplative thriller in both cases

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

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