If You Liked Maniac, Watch These Next
Finished Maniac (1963) 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 Maniac, most of them are crime, mystery, horror.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Glass Key(1942)
6.7CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and mystery
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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3.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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4.The Blue Lamp(1950)
6.6CrimeThrillerActionAlso crime and thriller
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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5.The Apology(2022)
5.8ThrillerHorrorAlso thriller and horror
Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, a recovering alcoholic is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration when her estranged ex-brother-in-law arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret.
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6.Lady in the Lake(1946)
6.1MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso mystery and thriller
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when…
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7.Black Angel(1946)
6.1MysteryCrimeThrillerAlso mystery and crime
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
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8.The Mirror Crack'd(1980)
6.1MysteryCrimeThrillerAlso mystery and crime
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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9.The Dark Mirror(1946)
7.0ThrillerMysteryHorrorAlso thriller and mystery
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
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10.Race with the Devil(1975)
6.4ActionHorrorThrillerAlso horror and thriller
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
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11.The Man Who Cheated Himself(1950)
6.2CrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
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12.The Mechanic(1972)
6.7ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim's sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him…
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14.Pickup on South Street(1953)
7.4ThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of…
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15.Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase(2019)
6.3CrimeFamilyMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve the mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community
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16.The Invitation(2016)
6.4ThrillerHorrorAlso thriller and horror
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.
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17.He Ran All the Way(1951)
7.2ThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
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18.A Blueprint for Murder(1953)
6.2MysteryCrimeThrillerAlso mystery and crime
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after…
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