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10 Best Movies Like It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)

If you loved It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did), we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Deathtrap

Deathtrap

1982★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script....

#2
The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

1953★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) for fans of 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
The Web

The Web

1947★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) 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...

#4
Perfect Sisters

Perfect Sisters

2014★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her....

#5
The Honey Pot

The Honey Pot

1967★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy exes into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them....

#6
They Made Me a Fugitive

They Made Me a Fugitive

1947★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge....

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