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Movies Like Women in Hiding

If you liked Women in Hiding (1940), a crime and drama movie directed by Joseph M. Newman, 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. 1Bandit

    Bandit (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewellery stores while being hunted by a rogue task force. Based on the true story…

  2. 2Double Mommy

    Double Mommy (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    After taking a break for the summer before their senior year, Ryan and Jess rekindle their relationship, and find out that Jess is pregnant with twins. When Ryan's mother demands a paternity test, they find out that…

  3. 3Cleveland Abduction

    Cleveland Abduction (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama

    A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.

  4. 4In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood (1967)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama

    After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

  5. 5A Thousand and One

    A Thousand and One (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and crime

    Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so…

  6. 6Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama

    A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district…

  7. 7A Kiss Before Dying

    A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and crime

    A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.

  8. 8Wanda

    Wanda (1970)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime

    After a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.

  9. 9Mexicali

    Mexicali (2026)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.

  10. 10The Place Beyond the Pines

    The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and crime

    A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

  11. 11Call Jane

    Call Jane (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.

  12. 12The Enforcer

    The Enforcer (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also crime and drama

    A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to…

  13. 13The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama

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

  14. 14Dancer in the Dark

    Dancer in the Dark (2000)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and crime

    Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation…

  15. 15Killer's Kiss

    Killer's Kiss (1955)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The…

  16. 16Damage

    Damage (2009)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.

  17. 17True Believer

    True Believer (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet…

  18. 18They Drive by Night

    They Drive by Night (1940)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime

    Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success…

  19. 19Stranger on the Third Floor

    Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

  20. 20Dogville

    Dogville (2003)

    ★ 7.7/10Also crime and drama

    A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

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