If You Liked Madigan, Watch These Next
Finished Madigan (1968) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Madigan, most of them are crime, drama, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Each Dawn I Die(1939)
6.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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2.The File on Thelma Jordon(1949)
6.6ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso thriller and drama
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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3.Where the Sidewalk Ends(1950)
7.2CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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4.The Young Savages(1961)
6.5CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
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5.Lady in the Lake(1946)
6.1MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
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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6.They Made Me a Fugitive(1947)
6.6DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama and thriller
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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7.Islands(2025)
6.2ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso thriller and drama
In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is unable to shake the feeling he has met her before. Tension and attraction grow, until her husband…
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8.Cry of the City(1948)
6.7CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism.…
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9.The Locket(1946)
6.3DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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10.Time Without Pity(1957)
6.5CrimeThrillerMysteryAlso crime and thriller
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit…
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11.Witness to Murder(1954)
6.3CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
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12.Man from Reno(2014)
6.4DramaCrimeMysteryAlso drama and crime
A mystery outside of San Francisco brings together small-town sheriff Paul Del Moral, Japanese author Aki Akahori, and a traveler from Reno who soon disappears, leaving behind his suitcase and a trail of questions.
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13.Black Angel(1946)
6.1MysteryCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
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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14.The Glass Key(1942)
6.7CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and thriller
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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15.5 Against the House(1955)
5.9CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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16.Born to Kill(1947)
6.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
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17.Plunder Road(1957)
6.9CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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18.The Dark Past(1948)
6.0CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and thriller
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
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20.Cause for Alarm!(1951)
5.9ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso thriller and drama
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
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