Movies Like Pitfall

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

The Mask of Dimitrios

1944·1h 35m·★ 7.2·Jean Negulesco

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No Man of Her Own

1950·1h 38m·★ 7.4·Mitchell Leisen

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Private Hell 36

1954·1h 21m·★ 6.7·Don Siegel

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The Big Knife

1955·1h 51m·★ 6.8·Robert Aldrich

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Gilda

1946·1h 50m·★ 7.6·Charles Vidor

TMDB recommendsThemes: extramarital affair, film noir

An Inspector Calls

1954·1h 20m·★ 7.5·Guy Hamilton

Themes: extramarital affair, film noirFans also likedCrime & Drama

The Dark Corner

1946·1h 39m·★ 7.1·Henry Hathaway

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Station West

1948·1h 27m·★ 6.6·Sidney Lanfield

Both star Dick Powell & Raymond BurrDP: Harry J. Wild

Murder, My Sweet

1944·1h 35m·★ 7.5·Edward Dmytryk

DP: Harry J. WildStarring Dick PowellCrime & Drama

High and Low

1963·2h 22m·★ 8.4·Akira Kurosawa

Themes: blackmail, film noirDrama & Crime

Johnny O'Clock

1947·1h 35m·★ 6.8·Robert Rossen

Fans also likedStarring Dick PowellCrime & Drama

Mildred Pierce

1945·1h 51m·★ 7.9·Michael Curtiz

TMDB recommendsCrime & Drama

Changeling

2008·2h 21m·★ 7.7·Clint Eastwood

TMDB recommendsCrime & Drama

Cape Fear

1962·1h 45m·★ 7.7·J. Lee Thompson

TMDB recommendsDrama & Crime

A Bittersweet Life

2005·1h 59m·★ 7.5·Kim Jee-woon

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The Lady from Shanghai

1947·1h 27m·★ 7.5·Orson Welles

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The Little Things

2021·2h 8m·★ 6.3·John Lee Hancock

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American Gigolo

1980·1h 57m·★ 6.3·Paul Schrader

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Cornered

1945·1h 42m·★ 6.7·Edward Dmytryk

DP: Harry J. WildStarring Dick Powell

Last Year at Marienbad

1961·1h 35m·★ 7.6·Alain Resnais

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