20 movies like Return From the Ashes, ordered by similarity : Tick Tock(2000), Frenzy(1972), Zeher(2005), Side Effects(2013), The Naked Edge(1961), Drishyam(2013), Anything for Her(2008), The Ax(2005), The Unfaithful Wife(1968), Samay: When Time Strikes(2003), The Deadly Affair(1966), Dead Ringer(1964) ...
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1965
105 Minutes
Maximilian Schell Samantha Eggar Ingrid Thulin Herbert Lom Talitha Pol Vladek Sheybal Jacques Cey Jacques B. Brunius
husband wife widow stepdaughter beautiful woman chess player melodramatic thrilling household europe bathroom deception inheritance romance murder greed infidelity fall quest wretched excess
In Paris, a Polish gigolo marries a rich Jewish doctor and stands to inherit her estate when she is deported to Dachau by the Nazis.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2000
90 Minutes
Megan Ward Kristin Minter Linden Ashby David Dukes John Ratzenberger Hedy Burress
beautiful woman wife best friend millionaire stranger private detective intricate sultry melodramatic suspenseful house bar parking lot town car office murder plot loveless marriage infidelity inheritance
A wealthy man becomes suspicious of his younger wife and hires a private detective in time to thwart her plans to have him killed.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1972
116 Minutes
Jon Finch Barry Foster Barbara Leigh-Hunt Anna Massey Alec McCowen Vivien Merchant Billie Whitelaw Jean Marsh Bernard Cribbins Michael Bates Clive Swift
murderer suspect ex-wife inspector murder suspect murder victim dark gritty thrilling suspenseful london bar market river office restaurant framed for murder murder manhunt serial murders
A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
India
2005
132 Minutes
Udita Goswami Emraan Hashmi Shamita Shetty Sameer Kochhar Vishwajeet Pradhan
young man young woman police officer husband wife thrilling intense gripping melodramatic india city house bungalow police station restaurant death murder loss of money husband/wife relationship investigation
Siddharth and Sonia are happily married to each other until Anna walks into Siddharth's life. Things takes a worst turn, when Anna gets killed and Siddharth finds himself in deep trouble.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2013
105 Minutes
Jude Law Rooney Mara Channing Tatum Catherine Zeta-Jones Vinessa Shaw Ann Dowd Mamie Gummer David Costabile Michelle Vergara Moore Vladimir Versailles Mitchell Michaliszyn
wife husband psychiatrist murder victim thrilling suspenseful apartment doctor's office new york city depression medicine murder husband/wife relationship mystery wretched excess 2010s
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1961
99 Minutes
Gary Cooper Deborah Kerr Eric Portman Diane Cilento Hermione Gingold Peter Cushing Michael Wilding Ronald Howard Ray McAnally Sandor Eles Wilfrid Lawson
suspect employee business partner wife blackmailer husband engaging suspenseful office courtroom household blackmail murder case husband/wife relationship investigation false accusations quest mystery 1960s
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
India
2013
164 Minutes
Mohanlal Meena Kalabhavan Shajon Siddique Roshan Basheer Irshad Kunchan Baiju V.K. Ansiba Hassan Esther Asha Sarath
cable installer operator wife daughter police officer husband gripping brutal intense incredible thrilling moving india village house police station bus station bus protection family relationships
A man goes to extreme lengths to save his family from punishment after the family commits an accidental crime.
Crime, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|Spain
2008
96 Minutes
Vincent Lindon Diane Kruger Lancelot Roch Olivier Marchal Hammou Graïa Liliane Rovère Olivier Perrier Moussa Maaskri Rémi Martin Thierry Godard Slimane Hadjar
wife husband son police officer judge counterfeiter brash suspenseful emotional france prison house courtroom suburbia family wrongful conviction desperation jailbreak husband/wife relationship murder case
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Comedy, Drama
Belgium|France|Spain
2005
122 Minutes
José Garcia Karin Viard Olivier Gourmet Ulrich Tukur Yvon Back Thierry Hancisse Geordy Monfils Christa Théret Olga Grumberg Yolande Moreau Dieudonné Kabongo
unemployed person wife executive police detective son husband dark emotional amusing suspenseful suburb motel house europe unemployment murder capitalism desperation financial crisis marriage
A chemist (Garcia) loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1968
98 Minutes
Stéphane Audran Michel Bouquet Maurice Ronet Michel Duchaussoy Louise Chevalier Louise Rioton Serge Bento Henri Marteau
insurance broker wife private investigator adulterer police officer writer brooding intense melodramatic paris countryside versailles, france house infidelity murder deception investigation cover-up marriage discovery
After the Civil War, ex-Confederate soldiers heading for a new life in Mexico run into ex-Union cavalrymen selling horses to the Mexican government but they must join forces to fight off Mexican bandits and revolutionaries.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
India
2003
136 Minutes
Sushmita Sen Sushant Singh Rajesh Khera Dinesh Lamba Tushar Dalvi
police officer businessman criminal actress daughter bleak disturbing intense suspenseful thrilling india police station house bungalow gruesome murder murder investigation serial murders quest pursuit mystery
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Malvika Chauhan battles time to obtain & solve the clues to solve the various murders occurring in the city.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK
1966
107 Minutes
James Mason Simone Signoret Maximilian Schell Harriet Andersson Harry Andrews Kenneth Haigh Roy Kinnear Corin Redgrave
secret agent inspector wife victim widow tense intricate london office household investigation murder suicide deception espionage mystery quest 1960s
A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1964
115 Minutes
Bette Davis Karl Malden Peter Lawford Philip Carey Jean Hagen George Macready Estelle Winwood George Chandler Mario Alcalde Cyril Delevanti Monika Henreid
twin killer sister lover police detective dark creepy melodramatic funeral mansion murder jealousy deception impersonation infidelity wealth rivalry revenge fall 1960s
The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
Mystery & Thriller
1937
80 Minutes
Derrick de Marney Nova Pilbeam Percy Marmont Edward Rigby Mary Clare John Longden George Curzon Basil Radford Pamela Carme George Merritt J.H. Roberts
actress police chief man suspect aunt murderer tense crafty thrilling england police station on the run hotel mystery mistaken identity framed for murder escape discovery quest 1930s
A Cornish constable's (Percy Marmont) teenage daughter (Nova Pilbeam) helps a man (Derrick de Marney) accused of strangling an actress.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1982
87 Minutes
Sting Denholm Elliott Joan Plowright Suzanna Hamilton Benjamin Whitrow Dudley Sutton Mary MacLeod Tim Preece
writer wife disabled person con artist daughter chilling dark suspenseful england house strangers supernatural rape husband/wife relationship infidelity deception discovery transformation mystery 1980s
A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Ireland
1963
81 Minutes
William Campbell Luana Anders Bart Patton Mary Mitchel Patrick Magee Eithne Dunne Peter Read Karl Schanzer Ron Perry Derry O'Donovan Barbara Dowling
wife husband mother-in-law brother-in-law doctor murderer creepy frightful ireland castle lake estate inheritance scam memorial family history serial murders greed pursuit mystery
Shocked by the death of her spouse, a scheming widow hatches a bold plan to get her hands on the inheritance, unaware that she is targeted by an axe-wielding murderer who lurks in the family's estate. What mystery shrouds the noble house?
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|UK
2006
126 Minutes
François Cluzet André Dussollier Marie-Josée Croze Kristin Scott Thomas Nathalie Baye François Berléand Jean Rochefort Guillaume Canet Gilles Lellouche Olivier Marchal Philippe Lefebvre
pediatrician wife serial killer gangster husband police officer thrilling crafty gripping intricate lake house park france city frame-up faking death murder conspiracy on the run
An accidental discovery near a doctor's estate stirs up some painful memories eight years after his wife's hideous murder, and now, things are bound to take a turn for the unexpected. Does the good doctor know more than he's letting on?
Mystery & Thriller
France
1958
90 Minutes
Jeanne Moreau Maurice Ronet Jean Wall Georges Poujouly Yori Bertin Lino Ventura Elga Andersen Micheline Bona Félix Marten Robert Balpo Nicolas Bataille
industrialist wife lover thug police officer suspenseful sultry dark melodramatic paris office elevator motel apartment murder plot infidelity marriage schemes botched crime forbidden love
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Portugal
1956
90 Minutes
Ray Milland Maureen O'Hara Claude Rains Yvonne Furneaux Francis Lederer Percy Marmont Jay Novello Edward Chapman
femme fatale smuggler prisoner husband wife mysterious man tense witty thrilling melodramatic lisbon, portugal boat prison port smuggling murder plot inheritance iron curtain hidden agenda mission
High stakes battle of wits and morals between gentlemen crooks, set in beautiful Portugal. A smuggler is hired to kidnap the rich husband of an American woman who's just arrived in Lisbon, Portugal.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
63 Minutes
Frieda Inescort Paul Cavanagh Heather Angel Bruce Lester Miles Mander Lumsden Hare Turhan Bey Charles Irwin Phyllis Barry Mary Field Paul Benay
murderer murder suspect murder victim woman intense suspenseful thrilling melodramatic profound brooding boathouse london murder suspicion investigation danger lie truth adventure discovery
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1969
92 Minutes
widow brother sister stepson employee woman eerie dark tense melodramatic household garden asylum family secrets murder marriage cover-up siblings communal living discovery
Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave their mental institution. As children, they were put there after killing their parents.