19 best movies like I Cover Chinatown (1936)

List of the best movies like I Cover Chinatown (1936): Step Up All In, When the Bough Breaks, Everlasting, Sun Don't Shine, Uncle John, CBGB, Dragnet, Jailhouse Rock, The Spy Ring, Lulu on the Bridge.

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Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:35

    All-stars from the previous Step Up installments come together in glittering Las Vegas, battling for a victory that could define their dreams and their careers.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:36

    A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    "Everlasting" is an award-winning thriller about a High School student who travels from Colorado to L.A. to find the truth behind the murder of his girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    Uncle John revolves around the struggle to keep a mysterious disappearance unsolved

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    CBGB looks at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal (Alan Rickman) in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Scotland Yard Inspector Geoffrey James (Henry Wilcoxon) comes to the United States looking for a band of international gem-thieves who have smuggled a rich load of jewels from England to America via a trans-ocean airline. Mary Hogan (Mary Brian), an airline hostess, aids him in his quest.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, crime, detective, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:01

    Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:43

    This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy who's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:10

    Marnie is a beautiful kleptomaniac who is in love with businessman Mark Rutland. Marnie who is a compulsive thief is being watched by her new boss Mark who suspects her of stealing from him and thus decides to blackmail her in the most unusual way. A psychological thriller from Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel of the same name by Winston Graham.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration02:02

    A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

      In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA

      An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant others. It seems that the streetwise Ray has found his calling, until he unexpectedly becomes a murder suspect in a case involving one of his most influential customers. Now, as the police and an assassin called "The Mormon" track Ray, he and his attractive assistant, Lola, must clear their own names.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      A reporter investigates the murder of a showgirl, who was the widow of a millionaire. While digging in to the mysterious murder of a showgirl (Vivian Wilcox), intrepid reporter Bob Martin (Robert Lowery) uncovers a connection between that case and another one he's been working on. An inmate (Lawrence Creighton) holds the key to the crime, but there's one problem: He's deaf and mute. Meanwhile, the murderers (Jan Wiley and Charlie Hall) appear to be working for a very powerful person.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genremelodrama, crime, detective, film noir, music
      CountryUSA

      Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot of the title because she was on the scene of a murder. The police conclude she didn't do it and they use her to set a trap for the real killer, a G&S addict, by financing a Broadway production starring Collier.




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