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10 Best Movies Like Backlash

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

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#1
The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

1953★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backlash for fans of Crime & Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspe...

#2
The Web

The Web

1947★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backlash for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his hea...

#3
The Glass Key

The Glass Key

1942★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backlash for fans of Crime & Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign....

#4
M

M

1951★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backlash for fans of Crime & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods de...

#5
The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backlash for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

#6
The Mask of Dimitrios

The Mask of Dimitrios

1944★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backlash for fans of Crime & Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career...

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