20 best movies like The Raging Tide (1951)

List of the best movies like The Raging Tide (1951): Hotel Noir, Drive, Hong Kong Confidential, They Drive by Night, The Sniper, Rogue Cop, Outside the Law, Murder by Contract, The House on Telegraph Hill, Brute Force.

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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: 7.8
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: 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: 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: 7.1
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: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.

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

A government agent's son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

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: 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.

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.

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

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

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA

A mystery writer becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when a publisher he last saw is found dead.

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: 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: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

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: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Eddie Rico, the erstwhile bookkeeper for a big Mafia boss, is now making a living as an honest merchant in Florida with his family. Things go sour when the police start a search for his syndicate-linked brothers who are on the lam after a big hit, forcing Eddie to get involved with the Mafia again.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

A father comes home to Tennessee from the "police action" in Korea to take over operation of the family moonshine making operation, but runs afoul of some gangsters who want in on the action.

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: 6.3
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: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

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
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

During the campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associating to the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry. When Ralph’s son, Taylor Henry, a gambler and the lover of Paul’s sister Opal, is murdered, Paul’s right arm, Ed Beaumont, finds his body on the street. Nick uses the financial situation of The Observer to force the publisher Clyde Matthews to use the newspaper to raise the suspicion that Paul Madvig might have killed Taylor.

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: 7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger. Corrected from an original submission by Guy Bellinger.

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

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

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.




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