Movies Like Nightfall

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

Out of the Past

1947·1h 37m·★ 7.9·Jacques Tourneur

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Framed

1947·1h 22m·★ 6.9·Richard Wallace

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Johnny O'Clock

1947·1h 35m·★ 6.8·Robert Rossen

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Reflections in a Golden Eye

1967·1h 48m·★ 6.7·John Huston

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Blue Velvet

1986·2h·★ 7.7·David Lynch

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Cape Fear

1962·1h 45m·★ 7.7·J. Lee Thompson

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The Lady from Shanghai

1947·1h 27m·★ 7.5·Orson Welles

TMDB recommendsCrime & Thriller

Dead Again

1991·1h 47m·★ 6.8·Kenneth Branagh

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Andha Naal

1954·2h 14m·★ 8.0·S. Balachander

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The Forger

2014·1h 35m·★ 5.8·Philip Martin

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On the Waterfront

1954·1h 48m·★ 8.1·Elia Kazan

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Mildred Pierce

1945·1h 51m·★ 7.9·Michael Curtiz

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Gilda

1946·1h 50m·★ 7.6·Charles Vidor

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The Naked City

1948·1h 36m·★ 7.5·Jules Dassin

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Suspicion

1941·1h 39m·★ 7.2·Alfred Hitchcock

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The Web

1947·1h 27m·★ 7.1·Michael Gordon

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The Dead Zone

1983·1h 43m·★ 7.2·David Cronenberg

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Runaway Jury

2003·2h 7m·★ 7.1·Gary Fleder

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Ransom

1996·2h 1m·★ 6.7·Ron Howard

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His Kind of Woman

1951·2h·★ 7.0·John Farrow

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How Good Is Nightfall?

Ratings across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and TMDB, plus our verdict.