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Movies Like The Big Steal

If you liked The Big Steal (1949), a crime and thriller movie directed by Don Siegel, 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. 1Criss Cross

    Criss Cross (1949)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and thriller

    An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

  2. 2Killer's Kiss

    Killer's Kiss (1955)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and crime

    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…

  3. 3Bandidas

    Bandidas (2006)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and a few good heists.

  4. 4Pushover

    Pushover (1954)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and thriller

    A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.

  5. 5Brute Force

    Brute Force (1947)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and thriller

    Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's…

  6. 6He Ran All the Way

    He Ran All the Way (1951)

    ★ 7.2/10Also thriller and crime

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

  7. 7Overdrive

    Overdrive (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.

  8. 8The Face Behind the Mask

    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.

  9. 9Family Plot

    Family Plot (1976)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime and thriller

    Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

  10. 10The Wild One

    The Wild One (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another…

  11. 11The Night of the Hunter

    The Night of the Hunter (1955)

    ★ 7.8/10Also crime and thriller

    In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

  12. 12The Lady from Shanghai

    The Lady from Shanghai (1947)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime and thriller

    A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

  13. 13Cry of the City

    Cry of the City (1948)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check…

  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. 15The Killer Is Loose

    The Killer Is Loose (1956)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and thriller

    A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole…

  16. 16Robbery

    Robbery (1967)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller

    In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.

  17. 17The Parts You Lose

    The Parts You Lose (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and thriller

    An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.

  18. 18Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

    Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime and thriller

    Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one-night stand, Mary, tags…

  19. 19Stark Raving Mad

    Stark Raving Mad (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.

  20. 20The Mask of Dimitrios

    The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order…

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