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Movies that feel likeThe Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

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

If you loved The Postman Always Rings Twice, the closest films we have are Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Gun Crazy (1950) and Gilda (1946). All three share The Postman Always Rings Twice's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Blast of Silence (1961).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Postman (1994)

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Leave Her to Heaven
1945 Β· dir. John M. Stahl
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.6drama Β· thriller Β· romance

Both are working the same pair: femme fatale, film noir

The difference: Less gritty, more its own thing

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

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Gun Crazy
1950 Β· dir. Joseph H. Lewis
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.6crime Β· romance Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: film noir

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

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

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

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

One thread runs through both: black and white

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

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

Common ground: murder

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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Out of the Past
1947 Β· dir. Jacques Tourneur
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.9crime Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: gas station

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

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In a Lonely Place
1950 Β· dir. Nicholas Ray
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9thriller Β· drama Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: murder

The difference: Leans further into mystery

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

The same mix in both: grit, then tension

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

Atmospheric 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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Mildred Pierce
1945 Β· dir. Michael Curtiz
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.9crime Β· drama

Common ground: infidelity

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

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Scarlet Street
1945 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7drama Β· crimePrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: femme fatale

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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Shoot the Piano Player
1960 Β· dir. FranΓ§ois Truffaut
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.4drama Β· thriller Β· crimeMax

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

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