Films like Arsenic and Old Lace
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and bur...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Film · 1949 · also comedy and crimeWhen his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family m...
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The Blue Gardenia
Film · 1953 · also crimeUpon 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 begin...
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Shadow of the Thin Man
Film · 1941 · also comedy and crimeWhile attending a major horse race with their young son, Nick Jr., Nick and Nora Charles witnesse a shocking murder from the crowded grandstand. What first appears to be...
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The Dream Team
Film · 1989 · also comedy and crimeFour mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a mu...
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The Thursday Murder Club
Film · 2025 · also comedy and crimeA group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic crime caper.
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Keeping Mum
Film · 2005 · also comedyA pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
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Foul Play
Film · 1978 · also comedyA shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
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The Cheap Detective
Film · 1978 · also comedy and crimeA spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his pa...
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The Trouble with Harry
Film · 1955 · also comedyIn a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe they may be to blame.
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The Mechanic
Film · 1972 · also crimeArthur 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 a...
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