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10 Best Movies Like I Wake Up Screaming

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

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#1
Black Angel

Black Angel

1946★ 6.0

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

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin...

#2
The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

1953★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Wake Up Screaming for fans of Mystery & Crime. 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...

#3
Nightfall

Nightfall

1956★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Wake Up Screaming for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit....

#4
M

M

1951★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Wake Up Screaming for fans of Mystery & Crime. 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 Web

The Web

1947★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Wake Up Screaming 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...

#6
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956★ 6.8

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

A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude...

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