Movies like The Solution
If The Solution's mix of jealousy, insanity and teacher stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Solution's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Sunset Boulevard
1950 · Directed by Billy Wilder · 110 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: jealousy, film noir, black and white
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Laura
1944 · Directed by Otto Preminger · 88 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: jealousy, film noir, black and white
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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Odd Man Out
1947 · Directed by Carol Reed · 116 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: film noir, black and white · Also drama and thriller
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
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Nightmare Alley
1947 · Directed by Edmund Goulding · 112 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: film noir, black and white · Also drama and thriller
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
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I Confess
1953 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 95 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: film noir, black and white · Also drama and thriller
When a priest hears a murderer’s confession, he becomes bound by his vow of silence—even as circumstantial evidence turns suspicion toward him.
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Double Indemnity
1944 · Directed by Billy Wilder · 107 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: film noir, black and white
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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Pickup on South Street
1953 · Directed by Samuel Fuller · 80 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: film noir, black and white
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet.
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Dial M for Murder
1954 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 105 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: jealousy · Also thriller and drama
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
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The Woman in the Window
1944 · Directed by Fritz Lang · 99 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also drama and thriller
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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Detour
1945 · Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer · 68 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also drama and thriller
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
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The Naked City
1948 · Directed by Jules Dassin · 96 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: film noir
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
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D.O.A.
1949 · Directed by Rudolph Maté · 83 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: film noir
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him.