20 best movies like Chicago Confidential (1957)

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Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman for criminals discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

A Psycho stalks the streets of Greenwich Village, killing and cutting off their hair!

Markimdb: 5.5
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:16

Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. When he's finally released for lack of evidence--after having been beaten up and tortured by the police--he sets out to discover who set him up, and why. The trail leads him into Mexico and a web of hired killers and corrupt cops.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, western, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

A badly injured fugitive explains to a priest how he came to be in his present predicament.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:05

A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident Dr. Luther Brooks. When brother John dies while Luther tries to save him, Ray is certain it's murder and becomes obsessed with vengeance. But there are black racists around too, and the situation slides rapidly toward violence.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide network of crime. The picture, which was shot in a semi-documentary style, was inspired by the Kefauver investigations of 1950-51.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

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.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a seven-year-old daughter. Kimura forces Joe into piloting war criminals by revealing that during the war Trina made treasonous propaganda broadcasts.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:15

Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son. Brandy charms gambler Lefty Farrell into impersonating the missing son.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Caged tells the story of a teenage newlywed, who is sent to prison for being an accessory to a robbery. Her experiences while incarcerated, along with the killing of her husband, change her from a very frightened young girl into a hardened convict.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:19

A crime boss tries to cause a riot and prison break while behind bars.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

An undercover U.S. agent (Gene Barry) searches for an Arab ruler's son kidnapped by communists in Hong Kong.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

A petty crook (Joseph Cotten) moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter (Valli).

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA

Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union, Walter has hired Artie Ravidge, a hood who uses strong-arm tactics to keep the employees in line.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.




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