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Movies that feel likeLaura (1944)

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

If you loved Laura, the closest films we have are Rebecca (1940), In a Lonely Place (1950) and Stray Dog (1949). All three share Laura's twisty and atmospheric 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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Rebecca
1940 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%★ 8mystery · romance · thriller

The same two preoccupations: obsession, and film noir

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Laura

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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In a Lonely Place
1950 · dir. Nicholas Ray
🍅 96%★ 7.9thriller · drama · romance

Two things both keep coming back to: murder and black and white

The difference: Trades the obsession of Laura for an angle of its own

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

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: detective

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Laura 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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Strangers on a Train
1951 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%★ 7.9crime · thriller · drama

Common ground: obsession

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

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The Blue Angel
1930 · dir. Josef von Sternberg
🍅 96%★ 7.6drama

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

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The Big Sleep
1946 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 96%★ 7.9mystery · crime · thriller

One thread runs through both: whodunit

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

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Dark Passage
1947 · dir. Delmer Daves
🍅 90%★ 7.5thriller · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: film noir

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

Both land stillness and twists at once

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

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Anatomy of a Murder
1959 · dir. Otto Preminger
🍅 100%★ 8crime · drama · mysteryPrime Video

Otto Preminger directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

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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Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 100%★ 7.8thriller · mystery · crime

The same preoccupation in both: detective

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.

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

The same preoccupation in both: the investigation

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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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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