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10 Best Movies Like The Stab in the Back

If you loved The Stab in the Back, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage

1986★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Stab in the Back for fans of Drama & Crime & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help fro...

#2
A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

2015★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Stab in the Back for fans of Drama & Crime & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A librarian with a sharp mind for murder, Aurora Teagarden is known around her small town as a master sleuth. When her friend Jane unexpectedly dies and leaves Aurora everything i...

#3
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

1991★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Stab in the Back for fans of Drama & Crime & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sist...

#4
Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise

Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise

2015★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Stab in the Back for fans of Drama & Crime & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Police Chief Jesse Stone now presides over the quiet, seaside village of Paradise, Massachusetts. When the facts don't add up in a brutal Boston-area murder case, Jesse opens an in...

#5
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

1987★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Stab in the Back for fans of Crime & Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?...

#6
Dead Man's Folly

Dead Man's Folly

1986★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Stab in the Back for fans of Crime & Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs....

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