Movies like The Blue Dahlia: 20 to watch next

If you loved The Blue Dahlia (1946) — a crime, drama and mystery film directed by George Marshall — these 20 movies are the closest matches.

The first picks are what fans of The Blue Dahlia most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like war veteran, femme fatale and film noir. 3 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.

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1
The File on Thelma Jordon 1949★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Crime
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
Stream in India on Plex
2
Black Angel 1946★ 6.1
Shares: Mystery, Crime
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's wife.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
3
Phantom Lady 1944★ 6.9
Shares: Mystery, Crime
A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
4
The Dark Corner 1946★ 6.6
Shares: Crime, Drama
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
5
Pitfall 1948★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Crime
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
6
Witness to Murder 1954★ 6.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
7
The Locket 1946★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Crime
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
8
Dial M for Murder 1954★ 8.0
Shares: Crime, Drama
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
9
Whirlpool 1950★ 6.4
Shares: Crime, Drama
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
10
Framed 1947★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Stream in India on JustWatch TV Beta
11
The Blue Gardenia 1953★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Mystery
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 suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
12
They Made Me a Fugitive 1947★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Crime
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
13
Lady in the Lake 1946★ 6.1
Shares: Mystery, Crime
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
14
Gaslight 1944★ 7.5
Shares: Drama, Mystery, Crime
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Stream in India on Plex
15
Each Dawn I Die 1939★ 6.9
Shares: Crime, Drama
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
16
The Web 1947★ 7.1
Shares: Crime, Drama
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 head.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
17
Sleep, My Love 1948★ 6.3
Shares: Mystery, Drama
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
18
Somewhere in the Night 1946★ 6.7
Shares: Mystery, Crime
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
19
Footsteps in the Fog 1955★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Crime
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
20
Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder 2017★ 7.1
Shares: Mystery, Crime, Drama
Jenn buys an old reel-to-reel recorder at a garage sale only to find that it includes the sound of a man pleading for his life. When the former owner of the recorder, a retired therapist, is found murdered in a patient’s apartment, Jenn’s investigation leads to other patients whose love lives are more entangled than she was first led to believe.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now