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10 Best Movies Like The White Lie

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

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#1
The Late Show

The Late Show

1977★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The White Lie for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who was involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-pl...

#2
The Two Jakes

The Two Jakes

1990★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The White Lie for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happen...

#3
Brand Upon the Brain!

Brand Upon the Brain!

2007★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The White Lie for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have lon...

#4
Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Arkadin

1955★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The White Lie for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, a...

#5
The Deep End of the Ocean

The Deep End of the Ocean

1999★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The White Lie for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated....

#6
Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

2013★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The White Lie for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly aband...

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