If You Liked The Big Sleep, Watch These Next
Finished The Big Sleep (1946) 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 Big Sleep, most of them are mystery, crime, thriller.
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19 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.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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2.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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3.Gone Baby Gone(2007)
7.3CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and mystery
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants…
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4.The Long Goodbye(1973)
7.4MysteryDramaCrimeAlso mystery and crime
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
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5.L.A. Confidential(1997)
7.8CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and mystery
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
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6.Shadow of a Doubt(1943)
7.5ThrillerMysteryCrimeAlso thriller and mystery
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
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7.Kiss the Girls(1997)
6.5ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and crime
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath…
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8.Farewell, My Lovely(1975)
6.7CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and mystery
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
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9.Secret Window(2004)
6.6MysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
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10.Cult Killer(2024)
6.4MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso mystery and thriller
A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
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11.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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12.D.O.A.(1949)
6.9MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso mystery and thriller
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to…
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13.Devil in a Blue Dress(1995)
6.5ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's…
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14.2 Days in the Valley(1996)
6.2ComedyCrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
In a sleepy bedroom community of LA's San Fernando Valley, the murder of a professional athlete by two hit men sets into motion a chain of events that puts the mundane lives of a dozen residents on a collision course. This clever tale tells the story of two hit men, a mistress, a nurse, a vindictive ex-wife, a…
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15.Wonderland(2003)
6.1CrimeMysteryDramaAlso crime and mystery
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes.
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16.Killing Them Softly(2012)
6.0CrimeThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
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17.The Salton Sea(2002)
6.6CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and mystery
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and…
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18.Kiss Kiss Bang Bang(2005)
7.2ComedyCrimeMysteryAlso crime and mystery
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
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19.City by the Sea(2002)
5.8CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and mystery
Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.
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