If You Liked Anatomy of a Murder, Watch These Next
Finished Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Anatomy of a Murder, most of them are crime, drama, mystery.
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18 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Presumed Innocent(1990)
6.8MysteryCrimeThrillerAlso mystery and crime
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.
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2.Just Cause(1995)
6.3ActionDramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
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4.A Walk Among the Tombstones(2014)
6.3CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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5.Deep Water(2022)
5.8DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and mystery
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
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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.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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8.Blood Work(2002)
6.2ThrillerCrimeActionAlso crime and mystery
Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
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9.Beyond a Reasonable Doubt(1956)
6.8CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub…
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10.The Devil You Know(2022)
6.7ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Once-incarcerated Marcus Cowans is trying to turn over a new leaf with the support of his loving family. Upon discovering that one of his brothers may have been involved in a horrific crime, Marcus grapples with the limits of brotherhood and loyalty. He and his family, increasingly weary of the justice system’s…
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12.Winged Creatures(2009)
5.9CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A…
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13.Dead Man Down(2013)
6.2ThrillerActionCrimeAlso crime and drama
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
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14.Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile(2019)
7.0DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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15.Stranger on the Third Floor(1940)
6.5CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
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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16.Devil in a Blue Dress(1995)
6.5ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
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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17.The Whisper Man(2026)
6.9CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
When his young son vanishes, a widower enlists help from his estranged father, a retired detective who put away the serial killer now linked to the case.
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18.Butterfly on a Wheel(2007)
6.4CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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