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1	Laura (1944) more movies like this directed by Otto Preminger featuring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the film was ultimately credited to director Otto Preminger and cameraman Joseph LaShelle (who won an Oscar for his efforts). At the outset of the film, ... see all copies from £3.43! new only from £7.56!
2	Charade (1963) more movies like this directed by Stanley Donen featuring Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, Ned Glass, George Kennedy Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn star in this stylish comedy-thriller directed by Stanley Donen, very much in a Hitchcock vein. Grant plays Peter Joshua, who meets Reggie Lampert (Hepburn) in Paris and later offers to help her when she discovers that her husband has been murdered. After the funeral, Reggie is summoned to the embassy and warned by ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £2.77!
3	Rebecca (1940) more movies like this directed by Alfred Hitchcock featuring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the classic psychological thriller Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcock's first American film. Joan Fontaine plays the unnamed narrator, a young woman who works as a companion to the well-to-do Mrs. Van Hopper (Florence Bates). She meets the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) in Monte Carlo, where ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £9.71!
4	The Big Easy (1987) more movies like this directed by Jim McBride featuring Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty, John Goodman, Ebbe Roe Smith A film that captures the steamy, colorful essence of New Orleans, this crime thriller tells the romantic story of a classy detective whose investigation of a gangland murder lands him in trouble with the city's new District Attorney, a woman with a rigid penchant for following the letter of the law. Despite their differences, the two manage to ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £3.82!
5	Dark City (1998) more movies like this directed by Alex Proyas featuring Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Richard O'Brien Alex Proyas (The Crow) directed this noir-styled futuristic thriller, scripted by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (Kafka), and David S. Goyer (The Puppet Masters). Separated from his wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly), amnesiac John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to learn he is wanted for a series of brutal killings -- but he can't remember ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £3.75!
6	Dead Again (1991) more movies like this directed by Kenneth Branagh featuring Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi, Robin Williams Set in contemporary Los Angeles as well as the Los Angeles of the 1940s, Dead Again explores a romance between two star-crossed lovers -- and the doomed passion they shared in their last lifetime. Los Angeles detective Mike Church (Kenneth Branagh) comes to the aid of mute, amnesia-victim Grace (Emma Thompson) and falls in love with her. He sets ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.13!
7	To Catch a Thief (1955) more movies like this directed by Alfred Hitchcock featuring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jesse Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar Cary Grant. Escaping the law, Grant heads to the Cote D'Azur, where he is greeted with hostility by his old partners in crime. All of them had been pardoned due to their courageous activities in the wartime Resistance, and all are in danger of arrest thanks to ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £8.45!
8	Rear Window (1954) more movies like this directed by Alfred Hitchcock featuring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time between visits from his nurse (Thelma Ritter) and his fashion model girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly), the binocular-wielding Jeffries stares through the rear window of his apartment at the goings-on in the ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £10.39!
9	North by Northwest (1959) more movies like this directed by Alfred Hitchcock featuring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jesse Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to call for a messenger just as a page goes out for a "George Kaplan." From that moment, Thornhill finds that he has stepped into a nightmare -- he is quietly abducted by a pair of armed men out of the hotel's famous Oak Room ... see all copies from £4.16! new only from £7.63!
10	Original Sin (2001) more movies like this directed by Michael Cristofer featuring Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson, Gregory Itzin A lonely man's search for companionship soon takes him to dangerous and unexpected places in this erotically charged drama. Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas) is a successful coffee salesman living in Cuba in the 1880s. Luis has had little luck finding love among the women of his native island, and he sends away to America for a mail-order ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.72!
11 view cover	Vertigo (1958) more movies like this directed by Alfred Hitchcock featuring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal one), this adaptation of the French novel D'entre les morts weaves an intricate web of obsession and deceit. It opens as Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) realizes he has vertigo, a condition resulting in ... see all copies from £2.15! new only from £4.16!
12 view cover	Vanilla Sky (2001) more movies like this directed by Cameron Crowe featuring Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Jason Lee A remake of the Spanish film Open Your Eyes (1997), this thriller from director Cameron Crowe bears one of several discarded titles for his previous, Oscar-winning film Almost Famous (2000). Tom Cruise stars as David Ames, a womanizing playboy who finds romantic redemption when he falls in love with his best friend's girlfriend Sofia (Penelope ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.77!
13 view cover	Gilda (1946) more movies like this directed by Charles Vidor featuring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray When wealthy Ballin Mundson (George Macready) rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) and invites him to the Buenos Aires casino he owns, both men get more than they wagered on. Farrell convinces Mundson to hire him as casino manager, but is shocked when Mundson introduces his new bride, and Farrell's old flame, Gilda (Rita ... see all copies from £10.11! new only from £10.11!
14 view cover	Suspicion (1941) more movies like this directed by Alfred Hitchcock featuring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is little more than a fortune-hunter, Fontaine marries him anyway. She remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to another. Gradually, Fontaine comes to the conclusion ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £11.89!
15 view cover	Spellbound (1945) more movies like this directed by Alfred Hitchcock featuring Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Jean Acker, Rhonda Fleming, Leo G. Carroll, Donald Curtis, Norman Lloyd, Regis Toomey As Alfred Hitchcock's classic psychothriller opens, the staff of a posh mental asylum eagerly awaits the arrival of the new director. When the man in question shows up, it turns out to be handsome psychiatrist John Ballantine (Gregory Peck). But something's wrong, here: Ballantine seems much too young for so important a position; his answers to ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £10.39!
16 view cover	Hart to Hart: Season 01 (1979) more movies like this No sooner have millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) and his journalist wife Jennifer (Stefanie Powers) have been introduced in the feature-length pilot episode of Hart to Hart than the couple is indulging in their favorite hobby, amateur sleuthing; it's all for a good cause of course, inasmuch as the Harts are hoping to solve ... see all copies from £25.48! new only from £25.48!
17	Moonlighting [TV Series] (1985) more movies like this Generally remembered today as the show that made a star out of Bruce Willis, the weekly, hour-long Moonlighting was in its time regarded as the hippest, most innovative series on television, one which for an all-too-brief period completely redefined that entire "mystery and detection" genre. Debuting with a two-hour TV movie pilot on March 3, 1985 ... see all copies from £15.40! new only from £15.40!
18 view cover	Dark Passage (1947) more movies like this directed by Delmer Daves featuring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead, Tom D'Andrea Robert Montgomery's 1946 film Lady in the Lake attempted to tell the entire story with a "subjective camera": shooting the film from the point of view of the main character, with the camera acting as his "eyes". The first hour or so of Dark Passage does the same thing--and the results are far more successful than anything seen in Montgomery's film ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £4.50!
19 view cover	Notorious (1946) more movies like this directed by Alfred Hitchcock featuring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin Though Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious was produced by David O. Selznick's Vanguard Films, Selznick himself had little to do with the production, which undoubtedly pleased the highly independent Hitchcock. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, who goes to hell in a handbasket after her father, an accused WWII traitor, commits suicide. American secret ... see all copies from £11.78! new only from £11.78!
20 view cover	Hart to Hart: Season 02 (1980) more movies like this Season Two of the lighthearted adventure-mystery series Hart to Hart opens with Jennifer Hart (Stefanie Powers, the glamorous journalist wife of millionaire industrialist Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner), once more mired in peril when she comes to the rescue of a bride whose new husband has vanished and left both ladies at the mercy of mobsters. Then ... see all copies from £23.23! new only from £23.23!
21 view cover	The Big Sleep (1946) more movies like this directed by Howard Hawks featuring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Charles D. Brown The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's sensuous, thumb-sucking daughter Carmen (Martha Vickers ... see all copies from £4.16! new only from £10.54!
22 view cover	The Blue Dahlia (1946) more movies like this directed by George Marshall featuring Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling This neat, fast-paced perfectly cast film noir reflects the hard-boiled, grim wit of the author of its screenplay, Raymond Chandler. Johnny Morrison (Alan Ladd) returns from the war to find his wife Helen (Doris Dowling) having a party and in the arms of another man. Johnny and Helen have a terrible fight, and later Helen is found dead. Johnny ... see all copies from £12.53!
23 view cover	Remington Steele: Season 03 (1984) more movies like this We still haven't learned the true name of the suave private detective who calls himself Remington Steele (Pierce Brosnan) as the series bearing the same name enters its third season. All we know for sure is that the real brains behind the Remington Steele Detective Agency is sexy private eye Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist), who has hired "Steele" ... see all copies from £23.47! new only from £23.47!
24 view cover	Moonlighting: Season 03 (1986) more movies like this Only 15 episodes of Moonlighting were produced during season three, down from the previous season's 18. The series' producers and stars made no secret of the fact that the production delays were being caused by backstage personality clashes; indeed, beginning in mid-season, each episode opened with an amusing "explanation" as to why the series was ... see all copies from £8.47! new only from £8.47!
25 view cover	Moonlighting: Season 04 (1987) more movies like this Although fans were still addicted to the hip, kidding-on-the-square detective series Moonlighting, the series was being eroded from within by profound production problems and internal squabbles. As a result, only 13 new episodes were produced for the series' fourth season, forcing ABC to fill out the rest of the schedule with reruns. Also, ... see all copies from £15.97! new only from £15.97!

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