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10 Best Movies Like The Sleeping City

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

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1951★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Sleeping City for fans of Crime & Mystery & Drama. 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...

#2
The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

1950★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Sleeping City for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon i...

#3
The Mirror Crack'd

The Mirror Crack'd

1980★ 6.1

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

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim....

#4
The Glass Key

The Glass Key

1942★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Sleeping City 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....

#5
The Blue Gardenia

The Blue Gardenia

1953★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Sleeping City 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...

#6
The Naked City

The Naked City

1948★ 7.2

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

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder....

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