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10 Best Movies Like Blackmail

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

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#1
Marlowe

Marlowe

1969★ 6.0

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

Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly...

#2
Pitfall

Pitfall

1948★ 6.8

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

An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator....

#3
The Mask of Dimitrios

The Mask of Dimitrios

1944★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Blackmail for fans of Crime. 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...

#4
The Dark Corner

The Dark Corner

1946★ 6.6

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

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart,...

#5
52 Pick-Up

52 Pick-Up

1986★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Blackmail for fans of Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape...

#6
Zero Effect

Zero Effect

1998★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Blackmail for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what ...

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