Movies Like Ordeal by Innocence (1984)

Ordeal by Innocence is a 1984 crime, mystery, thriller film from Desmond Davis with a MovieMagicScore of 4.8/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Ghost in the Machine and Double Jeopardy.

Crime Mystery Thriller

Ghost in the Machine

1993

After a freak, fatal accident, the soul Karl—aka The Address Book Killer—ends up trapped in the electrical grid. He targets Terry and her son for his next victims, turning home technology against them as deadly weapons.

4.7

MagicScore

Double Jeopardy

1999

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.

6.6

MagicScore

The First Great Train Robbery

1978

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.

6.7

MagicScore

Jaws

1975

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.

7.7

MagicScore

Liebestraum

1991

A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.

5.2

MagicScore

Chicago

2002

Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

7.1

MagicScore

Yield to the Night

1956

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

6.9

MagicScore

Deadline

1980

A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.

5.1

MagicScore

The Man with the Answers

2021

Ex-championship diver Victoras whiles away his days on the Greek coast, toiling away at a factory with only his dreams, medals and grandmother for company. When a phone call summons him to Germany, a simple road trip is the answer - that is until he crosses paths with the handsome Mathias - a free-spirited hitchhiker who tempts Victoras to take the road not taken.

6.9

MagicScore

#10

Lake Placid

1999

When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!

5.9

MagicScore

#11

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

1961

During the American Civil War, a Southerner is about to be hanged from a bridge for sabotage when something unexpected happens.

7.6

MagicScore

#12

The Marching Band

2024

Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.

7.3

MagicScore

#13

Three Identical Strangers

2018

New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.

7.3

MagicScore

#14

Chimpanzee

2012

A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests. Through Oscar, a little chimpanzee, we discover learning about life in the heart of the African tropical forest and follow his first steps in this world with humor, emotion and anguish. Following a tragedy, he finds himself separated from his mother and left alone to face the hostility of the jungle. Until he is picked up by an older chimpanzee, who will take him under her protection.

7.0

MagicScore

#15

The Thirteenth Year

1999

A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.

6.6

MagicScore

#16

Upperdog

2009

As young children, half-siblings Axel and Yanne are adopted to Norway. They are separated on arrival, him to material wealth on Oslo's west side, her to an average family on the east side. In contrast to her younger brother, Yanne remembers their journey to Norway, but she has no idea where he might be now.

6.4

MagicScore

#17

Alice T.

2019

Alice, a buoyant and impertinent red-hair teenager is far from the charming little girl her mother adopted as she was unable to have a child of her own. Being an endless source of problems and affected by the specter of her mother’s disappointments, Alice acts with her back against the wall, forging lies and blurring lines between the fiction she designs for herself and the reality of her existence. Until her mother discovers she is pregnant.

5.9

MagicScore

#18

Bringing Up Baby

1938

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

7.5

MagicScore

#19

Ammonite

2020

In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship. Despite the chasm between their social spheres and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover they can each offer what the other has been searching for: the realisation that they are not alone. It is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and alter the course of both lives irrevocably.

6.9

MagicScore

#20

Dinosaur 13

2014

Two years after the discovery of "Sue," the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, government officials seize the remains and claim that "Sue" was stolen from federal land.

6.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Ordeal by Innocence?

The top films similar to Ordeal by Innocence by MovieMagicScore are Ghost in the Machine (4.7), Double Jeopardy (6.6), The First Great Train Robbery (6.7). Each shares crime/mystery/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Ordeal by Innocence worth watching?

Ordeal by Innocence holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.8/10 from 31 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Ordeal by Innocence?

Ordeal by Innocence (1984) is a crime, mystery, thriller film directed by Desmond Davis, starring Donald Sutherland, Christopher Plummer, Sarah Miles.

Where can I find more recommendations like Ordeal by Innocence?

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About movies like Ordeal by Innocence

This ranked list pairs Ordeal by Innocence (1984), a crime and mystery and thriller film from Desmond Davis, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Donald Sutherland 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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