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Movies Like The Glass Cage

If you liked The Glass Cage (1955), a crime movie directed by Montgomery Tully, 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. 1They 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.

  2. 2Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

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

  3. 35 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.

  4. 4Johnny O'Clock

    Johnny O'Clock (1947)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature…

  5. 5The Web

    The Web (1947)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    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.

  6. 6Party Girl

    Party Girl (1958)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to…

  7. 7The 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.

  8. 8You 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…

  9. 9They Made Me a Fugitive

    They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

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

  10. 10Nightfall

    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.

  11. 11He Ran All the Way

    He Ran All the Way (1951)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime

    A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.

  12. 12The 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.

  13. 13The Big Combo

    The Big Combo (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    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.

  14. 14The 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…

  15. 15Macao

    Macao (1952)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook…

  16. 16Fallen 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…

  17. 17The Sniper

    The Sniper (1952)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he…

  18. 18Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime

    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.

  19. 19The 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.

  20. 20The Locket

    The Locket (1946)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

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