Movies Like The Great Alibi (2008)

The Great Alibi is a 2008 mystery, thriller film from Pascal Bonitzer with a MovieMagicScore of 5.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Watchmaker of St. Paul and The Musketeer.

Mystery Thriller

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

1974

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

6.9

MagicScore

The Musketeer

2001

Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.

5.2

MagicScore

Burnt Offerings

1976

A couple and their twelve-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer where things aren’t quite what they seem. Every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself…

6.5

MagicScore

Year of the Jellyfish

1984

Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.

5.8

MagicScore

Tattoo

2002

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Minks. The victim is a naked young woman with the skin stripped off her back, killed as she staggered into traffic. As Schrader and Minks investigate the murder, the case is complicated by a finger found in the stomach of the victim. Forensic examination proves the finger belongs to Nobert Günzel, who was previously convicted of rape and assault. The police raid Günzel’s residence, and discover a blood-stained table with restraints and bits of human flesh in his basement. They also find video equipment and preserved, tattooed skin from the victim’s back. Soon, they found dead bodies buried in the garden. Günzel then goes missing.

6.0

MagicScore

People We Meet on Vacation

2026

Poppy's a free spirit. Alex loves a plan. After years of summer vacations, these polar-opposite pals wonder if they could be a perfect romantic match.

7.0

MagicScore

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

1962

Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns out to be ugly and broken down. Daughter Katey, embarrassed by her braces, refuses to go to the beach, as does TV-addicted son Danny. When the family is joined by Hobbs' two unhappily married daughters and their husbands, he must help everyone with their problems to get some peace.

6.4

MagicScore

The Cheetah Girls 2

2006

Best friends Galleria, Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua, A.K.A. the girl band "The Cheetahs," get the opportunity of a lifetime when they strut their way to Barcelona, Spain, to perform in an international music festival. Along the way, the "amigas Cheetahs" learn that, although their paths are not the same, they are lucky to have one another for the journey.

6.3

MagicScore

Bonjour Tristesse

2025

At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile is relaxing by the French seaside with her father and falling in love with her new boyfriend. The arrival of her late mother's enigmatic friend turns her world upside down.

6.2

MagicScore

#10

Summer Things

2002

Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...

5.8

MagicScore

#11

Bilitis

1977

A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.

5.3

MagicScore

#12

Flatfoot in Egypt

1980

Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.

6.2

MagicScore

#13

Flatfoot in Africa

1978

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.

6.1

MagicScore

#14

8 Women

2002

Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.

6.9

MagicScore

#15

Small Town Crime

2018

Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.

6.4

MagicScore

#16

Surveillance

2008

An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.

6.0

MagicScore

#17

The Spiral

1998

A young pathologist seeks answers to the mysterious death of a friend and soon comes into contact with the same cursed videotape that caused the death of the friend's wife and son, which is haunted by the curse of Sadako, a relentless spirit.

5.3

MagicScore

#18

Club Dread

2004

When a serial killer interrupts the fun at the swanky Coconut Pete's Coconut Beach Resort -- a hedonistic island paradise for swingers --- it's up to the club's staff to stop the violence ... or at least hide it!

5.2

MagicScore

#19

One Missed Call

2003

People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters pursue the answers to this mystery which could save their lives.

6.2

MagicScore

#20

Fatherland

1994

Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.

6.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Great Alibi?

The top films similar to The Great Alibi by MovieMagicScore are The Watchmaker of St. Paul (6.9), The Musketeer (5.2), Burnt Offerings (6.5). Each shares mystery/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Great Alibi worth watching?

The Great Alibi holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.2/10 from 55 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Great Alibi?

The Great Alibi (2008) is a mystery, thriller film directed by Pascal Bonitzer, starring Miou-Miou, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Lambert Wilson.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Great Alibi?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more mystery recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Great Alibi

This ranked list pairs The Great Alibi (2008), a mystery and thriller film from Pascal Bonitzer, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Miou-Miou take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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