Movies like Assignment to Kill
If Assignment to Kill's mix of detective, zurich and switzerland stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Assignment to Kill's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Maltese Falcon
1941 · Directed by John Huston · 100 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: detective, private detective, private eye · Also mystery and crime
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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Strangers on a Train
1951 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 101 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: detective · Also crime and drama
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
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Psycho
1960 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 109 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: detective, private detective · From the same decade (1960s)
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
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The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · Directed by Orson Welles · 87 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: insurance fraud · Also mystery and crime
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
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Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · Directed by Sidney Lumet · 128 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: detective · Also drama and mystery
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
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Evil Under the Sun
1982 · Directed by Guy Hamilton · 117 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: detective · Also crime and mystery
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
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Death on the Nile
2022 · Directed by Kenneth Branagh · 127 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: detective · Also mystery and crime
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
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Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Directed by Billy Wilder · 116 min8.2
Why you'll like itAlso drama and mystery
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a…