20 best movies like Shake Hands with Murder (1944)

List of the best movies like Shake Hands with Murder (1944): Sharkskin, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Inherent Vice, Cross Country Cruise, Lace Crater, Radioland Murders, Laughing at Trouble, The Crime Nobody Saw, Union City, Broken Flowers.

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Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA

The Post War II story of Manhattan born Mike Esposito, a practiced tailor of custom mens clothing; a man of dignity and honor, whose developing involvements with the Italian mob wraps him up in a world of moral dilemma and clashing values.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

    In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:12

    A young woman is involved with a married man, although she does not know that he is married. He kills his jealous wife and implicates her in the murder. However, a playboy character who had been flirting with the woman earlier turns amateur detective and clears her.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Opting to sleep in the allegedly-haunted guest house while spending a weekend in the Hamptons with friends, Ruth, a lonely young woman in her mid-twenties who's had too much to drink, strikes up a conversation that leads to a sexual encounter with Michael, a burlap-draped ghost that casually appears before her. Through this inter-paranormal relation, Ruth contracts an STD with alarming effects.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    In 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and a soon-to-be ex-husband who desperately wants her back. As the broadcast begins, a mysterious voice breaks the broadcast and suddenly members of the cast turn up dead. It's up to her husband Roger, to find out whodunit as the police chase him through the halls of WBN.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:03

    Three playwrights (Lew Ayres, Eugene Pallette, Benny Baker) develop a plot around a drunk who gets killed in their apartment.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    A 1950s accountant (Dennis Lipscomb) with a restless wife (Deborah Harry) grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:46

    As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. On her very first night she meets the ghost of the crusty former owner, Captain Gregg—and refuses to be scared off. They eventually become friends and allies, after Lucy gets used to the idea of a man's ghost haunting her bedroom.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, detective, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    A private eye (James Dunn) investigates the murder of a fur dealer. Monogram.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryHong Kong, China
    Duration02:08

    In the early 1920’s, on the streets of Beijing, the nation’s most talented performers have gathered to show off their most spectacular skills. One day, a challenge is set: 50 silver dollars to whoever can reproduce the incredible magic trick “Eight Immortals’ Treat”. Zhang Xian appears amidst the waiting crowd and decides to try his hand at it.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A widow hosts a gathering for her high-society friends in an attempt to help solve her husband's murder.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    A disparate group of people meet as passengers on a superspeed train crossing the U.S. Aboard are a seductive blackmailer and the stage director he intends to frame, a woman chasing her husband who is running away with the blackmail victim, and the stage director's feisty leading lady.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:05

    Two actresses fall prey to the supernatural manipulations of a nightclub magician.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration01:52

    Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice arrives in her hometown of Baie-Comeau, Quebec to commence her investigation. Soon confronted by numerous figures from her past, the unusual weather and inexplicable behavior of the citizens lead Alice to believe that something beyond her comprehension is occurring to her old hometown...

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryThailand

    An outcast weirdo at a Catholic girls' boarding school. She has a special nose. Unlike the kid in The Sixth Sense, the olfactorily gifted girl Mon (Ploychompoo Jannine Weigel) can't see dead people, she smells them. More specifically, she can sniff out the troubled spirits who are still lurking in our realm. Her unique talent leads her to develop a connection with a boy ghost (Bom Phongsakon Tosuwan) who was a student when the place was a business school in the 1980s, before it was a church convent. Together, they investigate a murder that occurred there some 50 years before, when the school was the palace home of a princess, who was found beaten, bloodied and very much dead in her swimming pool. Her gardener took the fall for the death, but there was more to the case than met the eye.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Belgium
    Duration01:37

    When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom. But the next morning brings its share of surprises as Marie crawls out of bed to discover her life flash-forwarded fifteen years down the road: Not only has she been married to Paul all this time, but she’s now the mother of a little boy the head of a powerful multinational investment firm and the proprietor of a fabulous apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Quickly Marie discovers that all her achievements have not brought happiness.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryEgypt

    Hassan, a brilliant aviation engineer struggles with loneliness and depression while trying to design his exceptional project.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Nina Geld's passion and talent have made her a rising star in the comedy scene, but she's an emotional mess offstage. When a new professional opportunity coincides with a romantic one, she is forced to confront her own deeply troubled past.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    An introvert realizes he can be whomever he wants to be on the Internet.




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