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Movies Like Waterfront at Midnight

If you liked Waterfront at Midnight (1948), a crime movie directed by William Berke, 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. 2The 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.

  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. 4The 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…

  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. 6Pickup on South Street

    Pickup on South Street (1953)

    ★ 7.4/10Also 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…

  7. 7The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime

    Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

  8. 85 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.

  9. 9They 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.

  10. 10You Only Live Once

    You Only Live Once (1937)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham…

  11. 11The Damned Don't Cry

    The Damned Don't Cry (1950)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

  12. 12The 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.

  13. 13Dick Tracy

    Dick Tracy (1990)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

  14. 14The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp (1950)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    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…

  15. 15Nancy 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…

  16. 16Lady in the Lake

    Lady in the Lake (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to…

  17. 17Maniac

    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.

  18. 18The Lineup

    The Lineup (1958)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    In San Francisco, a psychopathic gangster and his mentor retrieve heroin packages carried by unsuspecting travelers.

  19. 19Force of Evil

    Force of Evil (1950)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    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 who wants to stay that way, preferring…

  20. 20The 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.

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