20 best movies like Over-Exposed (1956)

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.

Gary Cooper is cast as a racketeer known only as The Kid. He has chosen a life of crime out of love for Nan, the daughter of mob henchman Pop Cooley. Eventually railroaded into prison by her crooked cohorts, Nan implores The Kid to give up the rackets, but he refuses. Things go downhill very rapidly after that, culminating with The Kid and Nan being taken "for a ride".

Two federal agents (John Ireland, Richard Denning) do not believe an atomic-bomb threat is just another war game.

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.

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

A smuggler (Richard Denning) hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman (Steven Geray) and his daughter.

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.

In this silent film, a renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.

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

Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.

On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him.

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.

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.

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.

A woman finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.

An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.

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.

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.

An escaped con kidnaps the people he thinks put him behind bars.

A night-club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.

A mystery woman is a murder suspect's only alibi for the night of his wife's death.

A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.