If You Liked The Naked City, Watch These Next
Finished The Naked City (1948) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Naked City, most of them are crime, mystery, thriller.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.House by the River(1950)
6.8ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
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2.The Black Book(2023)
6.7ActionMysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
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3.Crooked House(2017)
6.4MysteryCrimeThrillerAlso mystery and crime
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
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4.Underworld U.S.A.(1961)
7.1CrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
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5.Barron's Cove(2025)
7.2CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and thriller
When his young son is viciously murdered by a classmate, a grieving father with a history of violence kidnaps the child responsible, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by a powerful politician -- the father of the kidnapped boy.
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6.Murder!(1930)
5.9MysteryCrimeThrillerAlso mystery and crime
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
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7.A Walk Among the Tombstones(2014)
6.3CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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8.The International(2009)
6.3ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the…
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9.Striking Distance(1993)
5.9CrimeActionMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Demoted Pittsburgh cop Tom Hardy works river patrol while a serial killer targets women from his past, forcing him to conduct an unauthorized investigation to prove his innocence and expose a dirty cop.
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11.Reminiscence(2021)
6.5MysteryScience FictionThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and…
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12.Righteous Kill(2008)
5.9CrimeThrillerMysteryAlso crime and thriller
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
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13.The Two Jakes(1990)
6.0CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and mystery
Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While…
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14.Awake(2007)
6.6ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and crime
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
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15.Inside Man(2023)
6.1CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and thriller
Based on true events. A disgraced police detective seeking redemption goes undercover to expose a violent crime syndicate. But as he sinks deeper into the mob, the price for absolution may be higher than he can afford.
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16.Stranger on the Third Floor(1940)
6.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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17.Thirteen at Dinner(1985)
5.9CrimeMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and…
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19.Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman(2021)
6.6ThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’.
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