20 best movies like The Velvet Touch (1948)

List of the best movies like The Velvet Touch (1948): The Divide, Hotel Noir, Sorry, Wrong Number, Million Dollar Pursuit, A Bullet for Joey, Jamaica Run, The 49th Man, Mad at the World, Damn Citizen, Gun Crazy.

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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: 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, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

A petty thief schemes a big score when he plans an armored car robbery.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.

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.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

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

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: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg (Keith Andes) to lead the state police against corruption.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA

An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, film noir, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.

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: 5.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

A Korean War veteran must find his buddy's widow and children to keep a bizarre promise.

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: 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: 7.8
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: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War, John "Kit" McKittrick is released when a New York City policeman pulls some strings. Upon returning to America, McKittrick hears that a friend has committed suicide, and he begins to smell a rat. During his investigation, McKittrick questions three beautiful women, one of whom has a tie to his refugee past. Pursued by Nazi operatives, McKittrick learns of the death of another friend, and begins to suspect the dark Dr. Skaas.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

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

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.

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: 6.6
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: 6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

Can a couple keep important secrets from Communist spies?

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.




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