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Movies that feel like Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

If you loved Witness for the Prosecution, the closest films we have are Anatomy of a Murder (1959), The Third Murder (2017) and Rashomon (1950). All three share Witness for the Prosecution's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.

πŸ… 100% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Billy Wildercontemplativetwistygrittydread
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Anatomy of a Murder
1959 Β· dir. Otto Preminger
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Common ground in both: trial and lawyer

The difference: Without the same dread

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

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The Third Murder
2017 Β· dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.7drama Β· mystery Β· crime

Both are working the same pair: murder, courtroom

The difference: 60 years apart, and the 2010s show

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

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Rashomon
1950 Β· dir. Akira Kurosawa
πŸ… 98%β˜… 8.1crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

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And Then There Were None
1945 Β· dir. RenΓ© Clair
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.3crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Gritty drama, and it commits to that

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

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In the Heat of the Night
1967 Β· dir. Norman Jewison
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both are built on the same subject: murder

The difference: Leans further into thriller

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

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Black Christmas
1974 Β· dir. Bob Clark
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.1horror Β· mystery Β· crime

Dread-soaked mystery in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.

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The Innocents
1961 Β· dir. Jack Clayton
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.7horror Β· mystery Β· drama

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Played as horror first

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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High Plains Drifter
1973 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.4western Β· drama Β· mystery

Drama built on twists, twice over

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

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Mother
2009 Β· dir. Bong Joon Ho
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both lean on grit more than on mystery

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

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House on Haunted Hill
1959 Β· dir. William Castle
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.7horror Β· mystery

The same preoccupation in both: cigarette

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.

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The Crimson Rivers
2000 Β· dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.9crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Dread-soaked crime in both cases

Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.

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Brick
2006 Β· dir. Rian Johnson
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.1drama Β· mystery Β· crime

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

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