20 best movies like Girls in the Night (1953)

List of the best movies like Girls in the Night (1953): The Postman Always Rings Twice, Apology for Murder, Appointment with Danger, Stranger on the Third Floor, Insurance Investigator, Hotel Noir, Born to Kill, Invisible Stripes, Mad at the World, Roses Are Red.

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Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:04

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

When a businessman who has had a double indemnity policy taken out on him dies mysteriously, his insurance company sends an undercover investigator to town to determine exactly what happened.

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: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

Helen Brent has just received a Reno divorce. That night, she discovers her neighbor Laury Palmer and a gentleman caller murdered in Palmer's home. The killer is her neighbor's other boyfriend Sam Wilde, an insanely jealous man who won't abide anyone "cutting in" on him.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

A neighborhood is terrorized by group of young juvenile delinquents called The WolfPack. When a young father's infant child is seriously injured because of the WolfPack, he decides that the police aren't working fast enough to catch the ones who hurt his baby and sets out to infiltrate the gang himself and mete out the punishment they deserve.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA

After nearly running over him with her cab, Patty Mitchell picks up a fare who claims to have amnesia. As he fumbles to remember the basic facts of his identity, Patty becomes interested in the stranger and decides to help him in his search. But as the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, and Patty's interest becomes more personal, the stranger finds that he is the prime suspect in a murder case.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA

Joyce Harper is an ex-Army nurse who enters police work with the L.A. Police Department, when her friend Ruby gets involved with a petty crook, Max Taylor refuses to listen to Joyce's warnings, and eventually marries the hoodlum. Joyce gets through the detailed trained required to become an L.A. policewoman, and she and her newly-assigned detective partner, Harvey Gates cleanup up a skid-row Bar-girl scheme.And she and Gates are told to get the goods on a narcotics gang ran by Richard Cott , and Ruby and Max Taylor reappear.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Ken Williams (James Brown), a star basketball player on a college team learns that a police lieutenant (Regis Toomey) is the head of a gambling ring attempting to fix basketball games by bribing the players.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.

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
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

A hood hides out on a fishing boat to avoid the cops.

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: 5.2
Genredrama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA

A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Gunner O'Hara is about to be released from prison after serving a five-year sentence, and receives a visit from his twin brother John, a divinity student soon to be ordained as a priest. Aware that Gunner plans to resume his criminal career, John decides to stop him.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama, crime, film noir, sport
CountryUSA

A college basketball star collaborrates with organized crime and becomes involved in 'point shaving.' A sportswriter tries to get him back on the right track.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

Vicious gangster Vincent Canelli pulls off a daring prison escape just moments before going to the electric chair, taking with him Peter Manning – a bank robber and cop killer who was to die right after him. Taking several hostages along, they try to get their hands on the loot from Manning’s robbery to finance their escape from the country.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

After her father is murdered, a girl joins the police force in an effort to track down the killers.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

An out-of-work reporter (Leslie Nielsen) seeks out a bank robber, and his bride (Colleen Miller) has to rescue him.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Crime drama in which a man unknowingly helps a gang pull off a big heist. The gang discovers that the man is more trouble than he is worth and as a result, things don't go as smoothly as planned.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

A pastry-shop girl (Penny Edwards) sees a priest's (Ross Elliott) and a lawyer's (Rick Vallin) brother take part in a jewel heist.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, CA. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

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.




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