Movies like Sommersby
Sommersby (1993) is a thriller movie directed by Jon Amiel. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
★ 7.7 · 1,309 votes · Crime, Drama, Mystery
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
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2. The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
★ 6.7 · 455 votes · Thriller, Adventure, Drama
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
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3. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
★ 7.6 · 1,534 votes · Drama, Thriller
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.
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4. Rear Window (1954)
★ 8.3 · 7,423 votes · Thriller, Mystery, Drama
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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5. Safe Haven (2013)
★ 7.2 · 2,478 votes · Romance, Thriller
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
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6. Days of Heaven (1978)
★ 7.5 · 1,218 votes · Drama, Romance
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
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7. Insomnia (2002)
★ 7.0 · 5,588 votes · Thriller, Crime, Drama
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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8. The Gift (2015)
★ 6.7 · 3,615 votes · Thriller, Mystery, Drama
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
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9. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
★ 7.3 · 440 votes · Western, Drama, Crime
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
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10. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
★ 7.1 · 393 votes · Drama, Romance, Crime
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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11. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
★ 7.3 · 502 votes · Drama, Romance
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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