20 best movies like The Last Crooked Mile (1946)

List of the best movies like The Last Crooked Mile (1946): Hotel Noir, Each Dawn I Die, Ride the Pink Horse, 'G' Men, High Sierra, Decoy, Canon City, Tokyo Joe, Criss Cross, The Sniper.

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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: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

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, 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: 7.5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

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

A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.

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: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgement. She encourages their affair but then quickly marries mobster Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea). To deflect suspicion of the affair, Steve Thompson leads Dundee into a daylight armored-truck robbery.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.

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: 6.4
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Clarinettist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

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: 6.9
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Cold War yarn about a US State Department courier who tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

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: 6.5
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: 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: 6.6
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
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: 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: 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: 5.8
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: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?

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: 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.




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