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Movies that feel likeIn a Lonely Place (1950)

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

If you loved In a Lonely Place, the closest films we have are Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Gilda (1946) and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). All three share In a Lonely Place's tense and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Naked City (1948).

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If In a Lonely Place hit the spot, these will too

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Leave Her to Heaven
1945 · dir. John M. Stahl
🍅 85%★ 7.6drama · thriller · romance

The same two preoccupations: film noir, and murder

The difference: Trades the twists of In a Lonely Place for an angle of its own

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

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Gilda
1946 · dir. Charles Vidor
🍅 90%★ 7.6romance · drama · thriller

One thread runs through both: film noir

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

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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 · dir. Tay Garnett
🍅 90%★ 7.4drama · romance · crime

Common ground: black and white

The difference: Sits closer to crime than In a Lonely Place does

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

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Stray Dog
1949 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 100%★ 7.8crime · drama · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

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 · dir. Delmer Daves
🍅 90%★ 7.5thriller · 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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Gun Crazy
1950 · dir. Joseph H. Lewis
🍅 91%★ 7.6crime · romance · drama

Both land stillness and romance at once

Bart Tare, an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival alongside her. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, at Starr's behest, the couple embarks on a crime spree for cash.

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

Thriller with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

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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The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 86%★ 7.5mystery · crime · thriller

Drama built on atmosphere, twice over

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

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The Naked City
1948 · dir. Jules Dassin
🍅 85%★ 7.5crime · mystery · thrillerMax

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 · dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
🍅 95%★ 8.1thriller · mysteryMax

Both lean on tension more than on mystery

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 Third Man
1949 · dir. Carol Reed
🍅 99%★ 8.1thriller · mystery

Twisty romance, and it commits to that

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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Laura
1944 · dir. Otto Preminger
🍅 100%★ 7.9drama · mysteryPrime Video

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

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