Movies Like Fortune Is a Woman

If you liked Fortune Is a Woman (1957), a thriller and crime movie directed by Sidney Gilliat, 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
The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
★ 6.5/10Also crime
A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire.
2
The Glass Key (1942)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and thriller
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
3
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and thriller
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
4
Nightfall (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and thriller
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
5
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.
6
Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also crime
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
7
Panic (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also crime
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful…
8
The Blue Lamp (1950)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also…
9
Odd Man Out (1947)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and thriller
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
10
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and crime
Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase…
11
Conflict (1945)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
12
5 Against the House (1955)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and thriller
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
13
M (1951)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and thriller
In the city, someone is murdering children. The police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
14
Pickup on South Street (1953)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller and crime
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified…
15
City of Ghosts (2002)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and crime
A con man who is on the run from law enforcement in the U.S. travels to Cambodia to collect his share in an insurance scam but discovers more than he bargained for.
16
The Brothers Rico (1957)
★ 6.2/10Also crime
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…
17
The Black Book (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller
After his son is wrongly accused of kidnapping, a deacon who has just lost his wife takes matters into his own hands and fights a crooked police gang to clear him.
18
One Night at McCool's (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also crime
On an ordinary night, in an ordinary part of town, a beautiful young woman walks into a bar. Her name is Jewel, and before long she is chatting to bartender Randy. The pair leave together, but he ends up getting into a…
19
The Virtuoso (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and crime
Danger, deception and murder descend upon a sleepy town when a professional assassin accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic boss.
20
Wardriver (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller and crime
He’s a Wardriver: a hacker who steals from banks, not people—until he’s noticed. Now the money turns violent, and the woman caught in it could save him or kill them both.