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Movies Like Fingerprints Don't Lie

If you liked Fingerprints Don't Lie (1951), a crime and drama movie directed by Sam Newfield, 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. 1The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    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 suspect that she murdered him while…

  2. 2Laura

    Laura (1944)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

  3. 3The Mirror Crack'd

    The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

  4. 4The Web

    The Web (1947)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.

  5. 5The Man Who Cheated Himself

    The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.

  6. 6Where the Sidewalk Ends

    Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama

    A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

  7. 7The Maltese Falcon

    The Maltese Falcon (1941)

    ★ 7.7/10Also crime

    A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

  8. 8They Made Me a Fugitive

    They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and crime

    After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

  9. 9The Letter

    The Letter (1940)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama

    After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

  10. 10Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

  11. 11Scarlet Street

    Scarlet Street (1945)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime

    Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find…

  12. 12He Walked by Night

    He Walked by Night (1949)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.

  13. 13The File on Thelma Jordon

    The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime

    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 clear her name.

  14. 14The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window (1944)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama

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

  15. 15The Wrong Man

    The Wrong Man (1956)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

  16. 16Nightfall

    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.

  17. 17The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

    Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime. Does it involve a…

  18. 18The Glass Key

    The Glass Key (1942)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

  19. 19Rear Window

    Rear Window (1954)

    ★ 8.3/10Also drama

    A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

  20. 20While the City Sleeps

    While the City Sleeps (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

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