Dark City
Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.…
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Movies Like Scarlet Street
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Movies Like Scarlet Street
I Walk Alone
Bootleggers on the lam Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 1…
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Killer's Kiss
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Ra…
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Cry of the City
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another cri…
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to…
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Hell Drivers
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.…
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Kiss of Death
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.…
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.…
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The Big Combo
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.…
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Fury
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 ki…
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While the City Sleeps
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".…
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Crime Wave
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a…
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Knock on Any Door
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.…
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He Ran All the Way
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.…
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This Gun for Hire
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Rav…
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Edmond
Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encount…
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The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.…
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The Blue Gardenia
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspe…
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Glengarry Glen Ross
Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could…
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D.O.A.
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murder…
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Witness to Murder
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.…
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Plunder Road
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.…
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Force of Evil
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators wh…
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5 Against the House
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.…
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The Killer Is Loose
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole…
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Odds Against Tomorrow
An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.…
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The Locket
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.…
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Catch Me If You Can
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI…
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Dead End
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.…
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Black Angel
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin…
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They Made Me a Fugitive
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.…
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Nightmare Alley
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.…
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The Glass Key
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.…
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission:…
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Cassandra's Dream
The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.…
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The Bygone
When a young rancher crosses paths with a Lakota girl from a nearby reservation, her mysterious disappearance sparks a search that uncovers a harrowing past and hints at a dire fut…
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The Cat's Meow
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.…
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The Letter
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.…
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Footsteps in the Fog
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.…
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Perfect Sisters
Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.…
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