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10 Best Movies Like Deadline at Dawn

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

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#1
The Naked City

The Naked City

1948★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deadline at Dawn for fans of Mystery & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder....

#2
Nightfall

Nightfall

1956★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deadline at Dawn for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit....

#3
The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

1953★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deadline at Dawn for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspe...

#4
Black Angel

Black Angel

1946★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deadline at Dawn for fans of Mystery & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin...

#5
Lady in the Lake

Lady in the Lake

1946★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deadline at Dawn for fans of Mystery & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about ...

#6
Vertigo

Vertigo

1958★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deadline at Dawn for fans of Mystery & Thriller & Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her....

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