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Movies Like The Gentleman Burglar

If you liked The Gentleman Burglar (1908), a crime movie, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  2. 2Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

  3. 3Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

  4. 4House of Bamboo

    House of Bamboo (1955)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

  5. 5The Thomas Crown Affair

    The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes that he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist--until he must match wits with an insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.

  6. 65 Against the House

    5 Against the House (1955)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime

    Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

  7. 7Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set…

  8. 8Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty…

  9. 9Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman…

  10. 10They Live by Night

    They Live by Night (1949)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

  11. 11The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime

    After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

  12. 12Monsieur Verdoux

    Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

    ★ 7.7/10Also crime

    The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child…

  13. 13Welcome to Collinwood

    Welcome to Collinwood (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.

  14. 14Murder at the Gallop

    Murder at the Gallop (1963)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again…

  15. 15Song of the Thin Man

    Song of the Thin Man (1947)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on a young bandleader and his musicians, the couple steps in…

  16. 16Family Plot

    Family Plot (1976)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

  17. 17The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window (1944)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime

    A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

  18. 18Little Caesar

    Little Caesar (1931)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

    A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

  19. 19Cigarettes & Coffee

    Cigarettes & Coffee (1993)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut…

  20. 20Ocean's Eleven

    Ocean's Eleven (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime

    Danny Ocean and his gang attempt to rob the five biggest casinos in Las Vegas in one night.

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