If You Liked City by the Sea, Watch These Next
Finished City by the Sea (2002) and want more of the same? These 13 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like City by the Sea, most of them are crime, drama, mystery.
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13 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Before and After(1996)
5.9CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
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2.Marlowe(1969)
6.1CrimeMysteryDramaAlso crime and mystery
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are murdered with ice picks, exotic dancers, blackmailed television stars, and self-preserving…
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3.The Seven-Ups(1973)
6.4ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso crime and mystery
A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.
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4.The Detective(1968)
5.9CrimeMysteryDramaAlso crime and mystery
New York City Police detective Joe Leland investigates the grisly murder of Teddy Leikman, the gay son of a politically influential department store owner. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in NYC in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs, homophobia, homosexuality and…
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5.Murder in Three Acts(1986)
6.0CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
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6.The Caveman's Valentine(2001)
5.9DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and mystery
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but…
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8.The Verdict(1946)
6.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
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9.The Deadly Affair(1967)
6.3ThrillerMysteryDramaAlso mystery and drama
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector,…
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10.The Stranger(2022)
6.2ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. However, neither is who they appear to be, each carry secrets that threaten to ruin them — and in the background, one of the nation's largest police operations is closing in.
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11.Footsteps in the Fog(1955)
7.0ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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12.The Blue Gardenia(1953)
6.5CrimeMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
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13.The Scarlet Claw(1944)
7.0MysteryCrimeThrillerAlso mystery and crime
When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
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