20 best movies like Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

List of the best movies like Arsenic and Old Lace (1944): The Voices, Frenzy, Don't Say a Word, The Prodigy, The Dream Team, Maniac, Santa Sangre, I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Shock Corridor.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:43

A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:56

After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he's the wrong man.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Australia, Luxembourg, Canada
Duration01:53

When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror
CountryUSA, Hong Kong
Duration01:28

A mother concerned about her young son's disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:25

As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryMexico, Italy
Duration02:03

A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:15

Jennifer Hills is still tormented by the brutal sexual assault she endured years ago. She’s changed identities and cities, reluctantly joining a support group where she begins to piece together a new life. But when her new friend’s murderer goes free and the tales of serial rapists haunt her, Jennifer will hunt down the men responsible and do what the system won’t – make them pay for their crimes in the most horrific ways imaginable. Only this time, no jury may be able to save her.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself recognition. With the assistance of a psychiatrist and his girlfriend, Barrett convinces the doctors at the institution to commit him. Once inside, he begins his investigation -- and gradually loses his mind.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:50

    A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryCanada, United Kingdom
    Duration01:55

    After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, detective, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration03:11

      Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:53

      Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Three tales, each more terrifying than the last. . . . A woman who is stalked by an axe-weilding maniac . . . a man who pays the ultimate price for a beautiful head of hair . . . and a vision of life—seen through the eyes of a killer.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:41

      In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, action, fantasy
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
        Duration01:42

        A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryCanada, France
        Duration01:23

        A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:57

        A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        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?

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, comedy
        CountryUSA

        A Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies who are heading to a weekend-long concert.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrecomedy, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        Set in 1920s New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal gets the part of a psychiatrist, and Olive is a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist as well as being a dreadful actress. Agreeing to this first compromise is the first step to Broadway's complete seduction of David, who neglects longtime girl friend Ellen. Meanwhile David puts up with Warner Purcell, the leading man who is a compulsive eater, Helen Sinclair, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Cheech, Olive's interfering hitman / bodyguard. Eventually, the playwright must decide whether art or life is more important.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:21

        Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrecomedy, musical, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

        From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, comedy, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, comedy, detective
        CountryAustralia, USA
        Duration01:35

        Spoof of 1960's Beach Party/Gidget surfing movies mixed with slasher horror films. A not-so-innocent girl in 1960's Malibu becomes the first girl surfer at Malibu Beach, only she suffers from dissociative identity disorder and occasionally her alter ego, a sexually aggressive, foul-speaking girl, comes out. During her "episodes" several beach goers are found murdered.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrecomedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

        Markimdb: 2.8
        Genrethriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Russia
        Duration01:23

        A Russian Police Major is enlisted by the LAPD to help solve a series of gruesome murders perpetrated against young women by a sadistic sociopathic killer on the mean streets of Hollywood.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA

        A masked vigilante who discovers the dark side to heroism. Going after the nation's most notorious super criminal leaves Sparks' life and reputation in ruins.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
        Duration02:29

        Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA

        Two dysfunctional couples rent a modern luxury desert home for the weekend hoping to sort out their messed-up lives. Just as they are about to settle in for a fun night, a neighbour turns up at their front door saying she has car trouble. And that's when the murderous trouble really starts. Because without knowing it, the four friends have landed slap-bang in the wrong violent place at precisely the wrong bloody time. Hopefully your nerves of steel will hold for one of the most stylish, atmospheric and terror-filled home invasion horrors of them all.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

          A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genreaction, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:15

          A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrethriller, comedy
          CountryNetherlands
          Duration01:32

          On his birthday, a hitman reluctantly takes on the easy task of killing a writer, only to find the job a lot more difficult than expected.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrethriller, comedy, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration02:00

          On the day the 15-year statute of limitations expired on a high profile serial murder case that claimed the lives of 10 women, a family member of the victim throws himself off the building in front of Choi Hyeong-goo, the detective in charge of the case. Two years later, a man called Lee Doo-seok publishes a book titled "I am the Murderer" claiming responsibility for the murders that took place 17 years ago. His book becomes a bestseller because of the author’s charming looks and his vivid depiction of the crime. The detective and the self-proclaimed murderer meet face to face on a television debate show. Believing that Lee is nothing but a con artist, Detective Choi renews his search for the ultimate truth. Then another man appears suddenly, claiming he is the real killer.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountrySpain, USA
          Duration02:23

          A man imprisons the woman he's still obsessed with after years apart, then finds the tables turned on him.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA, China

          An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountrySweden, Belgium

          The captivating story of Sweden's greatest judicial scandal ever, about one man who sacrificed everything in his hunt for the truth.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrethriller, crime, detective
          CountryPoland
          Duration01:47

          The Photographer is an elusive serial killer operating in modern-day Moscow. He leaves numbered tiles at the scenes of his crimes, similar to those placed at crime scenes by forensic teams. The investigation points to the old Red Army barracks in Legnica, and to events dating back to the 1970s. One of the people involved in the investigation is Natasha - the only person to have survived an encounter with The Photographer.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrecomedy, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.




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