Movies Like The Ruby in the Smoke (2006)

The Ruby in the Smoke is a 2006 crime, drama, mystery film from Brian Percival with a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Shadow in the North and Grandmaster.

Crime Drama Mystery

The Shadow in the North

2007

Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case.

6.5

MagicScore

Grandmaster

2012

Chandrashekhar lives alone in a dark and violent city. Even with crime occurring all around him, he withdraws from all responsibility and lives quietly. Soon, change is forced upon him in order to catch a serial killer. Like a grandmaster who anticipates his opponents moves well in advance, he proceeds forward. But only once, just once, he makes a fatal mistake.

6.6

MagicScore

The Premature Burial

1962

An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.

6.2

MagicScore

Sweet Girl

2021

A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.

6.6

MagicScore

Another Man's Poison

1951

Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly returns, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.

6.7

MagicScore

Oliver Twist

1948

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

7.6

MagicScore

Enola Holmes

2020

While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

7.2

MagicScore

Enola Holmes 3

2026

Adventure follows detective Enola Holmes to Malta, where her plans to tie the knot unravel when Sherlock's disappearance plunges her into a perilous case.

6.9

MagicScore

The Turn of the Screw

2009

A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons behind his expulsion. With Miles back at home, the governess starts noticing ethereal figures roaming the estate's grounds. Desperate to learn more about these sinister sightings she discovers that the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of her predecessor hold grim implications for herself. As she becomes increasingly fearful that malevolent forces are stalking the children the governess is determined to save them, risking herself and her sanity in the process.

4.7

MagicScore

#10

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

1936

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

6.2

MagicScore

#11

Dean Spanley

2008

Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.

7.4

MagicScore

#12

Scrooge

1951

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

7.4

MagicScore

#13

Far from the Madding Crowd

2015

In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.

7.0

MagicScore

#14

Oliver!

1968

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

7.0

MagicScore

#15

A Christmas Carol

2009

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

6.9

MagicScore

#16

A Christmas Carol

1999

6.9

MagicScore

#17

Far from the Madding Crowd

1967

Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.

6.9

MagicScore

#18

The Man Who Invented Christmas

2017

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

6.8

MagicScore

#19

Scrooge

1970

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

6.8

MagicScore

#20

David Copperfield

1935

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.

6.6

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Ruby in the Smoke?

The top films similar to The Ruby in the Smoke by MovieMagicScore are The Shadow in the North (6.5), Grandmaster (6.6), The Premature Burial (6.2). Each shares crime/drama/mystery themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Ruby in the Smoke worth watching?

The Ruby in the Smoke holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10 from 25 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Ruby in the Smoke?

The Ruby in the Smoke (2006) is a crime, drama, mystery film directed by Brian Percival, starring Billie Piper, Matt Smith, Julie Walters.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Ruby in the Smoke?

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

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About movies like The Ruby in the Smoke

This ranked list pairs The Ruby in the Smoke (2006), a crime and drama and mystery film from Brian Percival, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Billie Piper 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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