Movies like The Buckingham Murders (2024)
The best movies like The Buckingham Murders (2024) are The Mirror Crack'd (1980), Ittefaq (2017) and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015). If The Buckingham Murders hooked you with its crime and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedZodiac (2007)7.5/10 from 12,127 votes
- NewestThe Woman in Cabin 10 (2025)Released 2025
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIttefaq (2017)
Police officer Dev investigates a double murder case that has only two witnesses - an acclaimed writer Vikram and a young homemaker Maya, who also happen to be the prime suspects in the case. He finds himself being torn between their own version's of what happened on the fateful night, and takes it upon himself to figure out the real story and capture the real murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDetective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)
Byomkesh, fresh out of college, agrees to investigate the disappearance of Bhuvan, a chemist. Assisted by Bhuvan's son Ajit, Byomkesh links the case to a larger conspiracy that will unsettle Calcutta.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDamaged (2024)
A Chicago detective travels to Scotland after an emerging serial killer’s crimes match those that he investigated five years earlier, one of which was the crime scene of his murdered girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisCarrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery (2023)
A skeleton found in Lake Eden reveals the true identity of a beloved resident. Despite her fiancé's disapproval, Hannah investigates the murder and enlists her mother's help to uncover the truth and bring the killer to justice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Mumbai Police (2013)
ACP Antony Moses is on the verge of uncovering his friend’s murderer when an accident leaves him with partial memory loss. Reassigned to the same case, he must retrace his own forgotten steps to uncover a truth more shocking than he imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLuther: The Fallen Sun (2023)
A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Woman in Cabin 10 (2025)
On a lavish yacht for an assignment, a journalist sees a passenger go overboard. But when no one believes her, she risks her life to uncover the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZodiac (2007)
Police conduct a manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNeeyat (2023)
When an exiled billionaire mysteriously dies at his birthday party at a Scottish castle, the prime suspects are his close family and friends, each with a motive to kill him. CBI officer Mira Rao must use all her skill to unravel the mystery where nothing is what it seems and everyone hides a secret or two.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
The Woman in the Window (2021)
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFracture (2007)
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEdge of Darkness (2010)
As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Dry (2021)
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoundless (2024)
In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his old colleague Christian Habersaat's repeated requests. But during his forced retirement ceremony Christian kills himself sending Rose into a journey deep into her own traumatic past. Later, Department Q are embroiled into an old cold case of a girl found dead hanging in a tree.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisHow She Caught A Killer (2023)
Inspired by a true story, rookie detective Linda Murphy (Sarah Drew) is fresh out of the police academy when she hears her boss, detective David Goodman (Eric Keenleyside) talking about a serial killer in the area who seems to be targeting sex workers. Teaming up with FBI agent Neil Carter (Jamall Johnson), Linda fights to go undercover to help solve the murders and, if all goes accordingly, capture a serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Murder by Numbers (2002)
Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Snowman (2017)
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Abandoned (2023)
When a mysterious corpse is found in a river, a distressed police officer delves into a string of grisly murders as danger quickly approaches.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEvaru (2019)
When a high-ranking police officer is killed by his alleged rape victim, Sub-inspector Vikram Vasudev is entrusted with investigating what seems like an open-and-shut case. However, as he delves deeper, Vikram finds the case spiralling into a dark tale filled with unexpected surprises.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDrishyam (2015)
When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAppointment with Death (1988)
Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Good Nurse (2022)
Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGone Baby Gone (2007)
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBaishe Srabon (2011)
A serial killer terrorises the city of Kolkata and leaves behind verses of Bengali poetry. The police seek the help of a retired officer to unravel the case and find the perpetrator.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHangman (2017)
A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game, Hangman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisFarewell, My Lovely (1975)
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTightrope (1984)
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Buckingham Murders?
The closest matches to The Buckingham Murders are The Mirror Crack'd (1980), Ittefaq (2017) and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Buckingham Murders?
People who watched The Buckingham Murders most often go on to The Mirror Crack'd (1980), Ittefaq (2017) and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Buckingham Murders?
Zodiac (2007), rated 7.5/10 by 12,127 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Buckingham Murders?
The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Buckingham Murders?
Yes: The Mirror Crack'd (1980), Damaged (2024) and Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery (2023).
How are movies similar to The Buckingham Murders chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Buckingham Murders, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.