Movies Like Appointment with a Shadow

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5 Against the House

1955·1h 24m·★ 5.9·Phil Karlson

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Nightfall

1956·1h 19m·★ 7.1·Jacques Tourneur

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The Female Animal

1958·1h 23m·★ 6.1·Harry Keller

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Blade Runner

1982·1h 58m·★ 8.1·Ridley Scott

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Out of the Past

1947·1h 37m·★ 7.9·Jacques Tourneur

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The Killing

1956·1h 25m·★ 7.9·Stanley Kubrick

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Hardly a Criminal

1949·1h 28m·★ 7.3·Hugo Fregonese

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The Black Vampire

1953·1h 30m·★ 7.3·Román Viñoly Barreto

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Lady in the Lake

1946·1h 45m·★ 6.5·Robert Montgomery

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The Web

1947·1h 27m·★ 7.1·Michael Gordon

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Each Dawn I Die

1939·1h 32m·★ 7.2·William Keighley

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They Made Me a Fugitive

1947·1h 39m·★ 7.2·Alberto Cavalcanti

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The File on Thelma Jordon

1949·1h 40m·★ 6.9·Robert Siodmak

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M

1951·1h 28m·★ 6.8·Joseph Losey

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The Locket

1946·1h 25m·★ 7.1·John Brahm

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The Quiller Memorandum

1966·1h 44m·★ 6.3·Michael Anderson

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Central Station

1998·1h 51m·★ 8.0·Walter Salles

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Rebecca

1940·2h 10m·★ 8.0·Alfred Hitchcock

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2003·2h 34m·★ 7.8·Edward Zwick

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The 39 Steps

1935·1h 26m·★ 7.6·Alfred Hitchcock

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How Good Is Appointment with a Shadow?

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