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10 Best Movies Like Buried Alive

If you loved Buried Alive, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Absence of Malice

Absence of Malice

1981★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buried Alive for fans of Crime & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it inv...

#2
Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die

1939★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buried Alive for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in ord...

#3
Woman of Straw

Woman of Straw

1964★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buried Alive for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him....

#4
Underworld

Underworld

1927★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buried Alive for fans of Crime & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend....

#5
The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum

1966★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buried Alive for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigat...

#6
They Live by Night

They Live by Night

1949★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buried Alive for fans of Crime & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning....

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