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Movies that feel like The Woman in the Window (1944)

If you loved The Woman in the Window, the closest films we have are Scarlet Street (1945), Fury (1936) and M (1931). All three share The Woman in the Window's gritty and contemplative 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, Criterion Channel and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

πŸ… 83% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Fritz Langgrittycontemplativetensedreamlikeatmospheric
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Scarlet Street
1945 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7drama Β· crime

Fritz Lang directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the tension The Woman in the Window is built on

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

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Fury
1936 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.8crime Β· drama Β· thriller

The same hand behind both of them: Fritz Lang

The difference: Missing the dream logic of The Woman in the Window

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

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M
1931 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.3drama Β· thriller Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: film noir

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

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

One thread runs through both: film noir

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

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The Big Heat
1953 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.9crime Β· thriller

The same mix in both: grit, then tension

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

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The Stranger
1946 Β· dir. Orson Welles
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.3thriller Β· crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: professor

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.

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Blast of Silence
1961 Β· dir. Allen Baron
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.4crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Contemplative where it counts, atmospheric underneath

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.

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

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

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

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High Sierra
1941 Β· dir. Raoul Walsh
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.5crime Β· drama Β· action

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Sits closer to action than The Woman in the Window does

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

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

Tense thriller in both cases

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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Killer's Kiss
1955 Β· dir. Stanley Kubrick
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.5thriller Β· crime Β· drama

Crime built on atmosphere, twice over

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.

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The Set-Up
1949 Β· dir. Robert Wise
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.8drama Β· crime

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

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