20 best movies like New York Confidential (1955)

List of the best movies like New York Confidential (1955): Hotel Noir, Crime of Passion, Drive, Angels with Dirty Faces, Between Midnight and Dawn, Three Steps North, No Way Out, A Bullet Is Waiting, Tight Spot, The Narrow Margin.

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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: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.

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: 7.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryItaly, USA
Duration01:25

An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off on a manhunt to find out who stole his buried fortune.

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: 5.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a struggle, only to be taken in hand by the female manager of a remote sheep ranch.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:11

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

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: 6.6
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: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

City police surround a building attempting to capture a suspected murder. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:05

A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:09

Three juvenile-delinquents launch a reign of terror upon those who witnessed a deadly auto accident in this exploitation drama.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:07

The film revolves around Davey Gordon, a 29 year old welterweight New York boxer in the end of his career, and his relationship with a dancer and her violent employer.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

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: 5.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

Promoter William Montague wants to buy the estate owned by the Daceys, Mrs. Dacey and her daughter Ena and son Todd, in order to build a resort hotel. When they turn him down, he produces a couple of distant relatives, Janice and Robert Clayton, and sets about to prove that the estate rightfully belongs to them. The identity of the rightful heirs is thought to be buried in a sunken ship off of the Jamaican shore and the search begins, led by a schooner skipper, Patrick Fairlie, who is in love with Ena.




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