20 movies like Nancy Drew, Detective, ordered by similarity : Nancy Drew(2007), Searching(2018), At First Light(2018), A Simple Favor(2018), Cop Car(2015), The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane(1976), Mr. Wong in Chinatown(1939), Bulldog Drummond Comes Back(1937), Jungle(2017), Sherlock Gnomes(2018), The Man Who Knew Too Much(1934), Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket(2016) ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1938
67 Minutes
Bonita Granville John Litel Frank Thomas Jr. Frank Orth Renie Riano Vera Lewis John Ridgely Helena Phillips Evans
nancy drew boyfriend father police captain wealthy woman accountant charming lighthearted river heights family home lake hospital disappearance abduction secret codes investigation friendship carrier pigeons mystery adventure
After a wealthy dowager who has made a substantial donation her alma mater suddenly disappears, Nancy Drew sets out to solve the mystery.
Mystery & Thriller, Kids & Family, Adventure
USA
2007
99 Minutes
Emma Roberts Josh Flitter Max Thieriot Rachael Leigh Cook Tate Donovan Caroline Aaron Craig Gellis Rich Cooper
nancy drew father friend business partner sleuth movie star emotional heartwarming hilarious amusing charming hollywood, calif. school car mansion small town clothing store cold case investigation murder
Teen detective Nancy Drew accompanies her father on a business trip to Los Angeles, where she happens upon clues to a murder mystery involving a movie star.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Russia
2018
102 Minutes
John Cho Debra Messing Joseph Lee Michelle La Sara Sohn Alex Jayne Go Thomas Barbusca Gage Biltoft
daughter father police officer friend missing girl disturbing shocking intricate uneasy tense house room school party missing persons mystery father/daughter relationship investigation internet secrets
After his teenage daughter goes missing, a desperate father tries to find clues on her laptop.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Canada
2018
91 Minutes
Stefanie Scott Théodore Pellerin Saïd Taghmaoui James Wotherspoon Kate Burton Josh Cruddas
high-school student superhuman friend stranger scientist government agent thrilling uneasy tense brooding house trailer car store desert abduction running friendship mysterious strangers mystery
Alex is floating unconscious in a lake when light from a UFO of light saves her by enhancing her abilities such as telekinesis and healing power. Her friend Sean helps her. The authorities want her - not just for stealing a police car.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Canada|USA
2018
117 Minutes
Anna Kendrick Blake Lively Henry Golding Ian Ho Joshua Satine Andrew Rannells Kelly McCormack Aparna Nancherla Rupert Friend Bashir Salahuddin Jean Smart
widow son friend husband single mother missing person sultry tense intricate confident dark thrilling suburb house school kitchen river airplane missing persons mysterious past
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2015
88 Minutes
Kevin Bacon James Freedson-Jackson Hays Wellford Camryn Manheim Shea Whigham Sean Hartley Kyra Sedgwick Sit Lenh
young boy friend sheriff mysterious man woman hostage brutal disturbing gory intense suspenseful tense united states field road car woods country road rebellion mystery
A small-town sheriff sets out to find the two kids who have taken his car on a joy ride.
Mystery & Thriller
Canada|France
1976
91 Minutes
Jodie Foster Martin Sheen Alexis Smith Scott Jacoby Mort Shuman Dorothy Davis Clesson Goodhue Hubert Noël Jacques Famery Mary Morter Judie Wildman
teen girl landlady pedophile friend neighbor creepy suspenseful new england small town family home street secret sexual advances friendship violence blackmail growing up mystery pursuit 1970s
13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a high-class Quebec small town, but unknown to the neighbors, she is leading a secret and dangerous life.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
71 Minutes
Boris Karloff Marjorie Reynolds Grant Withers Peter George Lynn William Royle Huntley Gordon James Flavin Lotus Long Richard Loo Bessie Loo Angelo Rossitto
private detective princess captain reporter police captain bank president charming intricate suspenseful san francisco house chinatown docks ship murder investigation chinese-american culture political intrigue forgery swindling royalty
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper.... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
64 Minutes
John Barrymore John Howard Louise Campbell Reginald Denny E.E. Clive J. Carrol Naish Helen Freeman Zeffie Tilbury John Sutton Rita Page Ivo Henderson
captain girlfriend colonel detective murderer brooding chilling dark frightening somber house town car kidnapping investigation crime adventure mystery rescue revenge
The girlfriend of Captain Drummond has been kidnapped by an enemy of Drummond who seeks revenge. But Drummond and his friend Colonel Nielsen at once follow his trail...
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Australia|Colombia|UK
2017
115 Minutes
Daniel Radcliffe Alex Russell Thomas Kretschmann Joel Jackson Lily Sullivan Jacek Koman Yasmin Kassim Luis Jose Lopez Angie Milliken Joey Vieira Paris Moletti
survivor adventurer explorer teacher stranger friend bleak thrilling intense suspenseful gripping jungle bolivia amazon israel adventure near-death experience friendship lost survival
A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a difficult place to be.
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA|India|Canada|France|Belgium
2018
86 Minutes
sherlock holmes investigator gnome couple missing person amusing cheery cheeky charming playful endearing garden party london sewer park tree missing persons sherlock holmes investigation
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Emily Blunt), recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes (Johnny Depp) to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1934
75 Minutes
Leslie Banks Peter Lorre Edna Best Frank Vosper Hugh Wakefield Nova Pilbeam Pierre Fresnay Cicely Oates D.A. Clarke-Smith George Curzon Henry Oscar
mother father daughter spy assassin tense suspenseful thrilling st. moritz england hotel london albert hall government secrets espionage kidnapping family murder adventure pursuit
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
USA
2016
92 Minutes
Bailee Madison Robert Capron Rachel Resheff Mavrick Moreno Juliana Harkavy Gary Weeks Whitney Goin Mia Matthews Bianca Matthews Wally Marzano-Lesnevich Kevin B. McGlynn
writer friend teenager thief amusing charming suspenseful united states nantucket island, mass. ghost stories mystery quest teen culture adventure adventure growing up mystery 2010s
Vacationing on historic Nantucket Island, a teenage mystery writer and her friends must outwit two scheming thieves to solve the secret behind a legendary ghost story.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2018
100 Minutes
Gabriela Muskala Lukasz Simlat Malgorzata Buczkowska Piotr Skiba Halina Rasiakowna Zbigniew Walerys Dariusz Chojnacki Iwo Rajski Klara Bielawka Grzegorz Stelmaszewski
amnesiac mother daughter wife family member friend gripping raw emotional intricate tense forest hospital house beach train tracks train station amnesia starting over going home
Alicja suffers from memory loss and has rebuilt her own free-spirited way of life. Two years later, she returns to her former family to assume against her will her role as wife, mother, and daughter to people who are strangers to her.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2011
112 Minutes
Kyle Chandler Elle Fanning Joel Courtney Gabriel Basso Ron Eldard Noah Emmerich Riley Griffiths Ryan Lee Zach Mills AJ Michalka Glynn Turman
teen boy teen girl friend father deputy military officer thrilling emotional endearing suspenseful gripping heartwarming ohio train tracks lair small town household military base train crash filmmaking
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Drama
UK|USA|Iceland
2015
121 Minutes
Jason Clarke Josh Brolin John Hawkes Robin Wright Emily Watson Michael Kelly Keira Knightley Sam Worthington Martin Henderson Elizabeth Debicki Ingvar Sigurdsson
mountain climber sherpa team leader survivor friend family member bleak emotional gripping tense intense mount everest base camp house trail helicopter hospital mountain climbing storm danger
The story of New Zealand's Robert "Rob" Edwin Hall, who on May 10, 1996, together with Scott Fischer, teamed up on a joint expedition to ascend Mount Everest.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1966
121 Minutes
Paul Newman Lauren Bacall Shelley Winters Julie Harris Robert Wagner Janet Leigh Arthur Hill Pamela Tiffin Robert Webber Strother Martin Harold Gould
detective wife stepmother teenager lawyer guru cool intricate family home california office abduction divorce wealth family crime mystery 1960s
Lew Harper, a cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1949
104 Minutes
Orson Welles Joseph Cotten Trevor Howard Alida Valli Paul Hoerbiger Ernst Deutsch Erich Ponto Siegfried Breuer Bernard Lee Hedwig Bleibtreu Wilfrid Hyde-White
writer friend actress love interest thief suspenseful dark vienna cemetery hospital nightclub household accident investigation murder love triangle mistaken identity betrayal mystery pursuit
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1938
97 Minutes
Margaret Lockwood Michael Redgrave Dame May Whitty Paul Lukas Googie Withers Cecil Parker Linden Travers Catherine Lacey Naunton Wayne Basil Radford Mary Clare
musicologist governess doctor spy suspenseful charming witty thrilling central europe train london hotel kidnapping espionage disappearance conspiracy mystery rescue adventure love
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2009
84 Minutes
Lou Taylor Pucci David Pastor Chris Pine Piper Perabo Emily VanCamp Christopher Meloni Kiernan Shipka Mark Moses
brother girlfriend friend man young girl woman suspenseful emotional frightening beach golf course gas station car motel desert pandemic survival virus journey post-apocalypse
As a lethal virus spreads globally, four friends seek a reputed plague-free haven. But while avoiding the infected, the travelers turn on one another.
Mystery & Thriller
France|Italy
1960
115 Minutes
Alain Delon Marie Laforêt Maurice Ronet Elvire Popesco Erno Crisa Frank Latimore Bill Kearns Ave Ninchi
sociopath friend girlfriend father cool gripping italy resort wealth friendship family dysfunction deception pursuit transformation wretched excess 1960s
Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.