Movies Like Lonely Heart Bandits
If you liked Lonely Heart Bandits (1950), a drama and crime movie directed by George Blair, 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.
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Each Dawn I Die (1939)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and dramaA corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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Murder in Three Acts (1986)
★ 6/10Also crime and dramaIn 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.
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5 Against the House (1955)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and dramaFormer war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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While the City Sleeps (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaNewspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
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The Blue Gardenia (1953)
★ 6.5/10Also crimeUpon 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…
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The Glass Key (1942)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeA crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Pitfall (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crimeAn insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
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I Want to Live! (1958)
★ 7/10Also drama and crimeBrazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeJane 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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Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and dramaA spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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The Dark Corner (1946)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and dramaEx-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in…
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The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
★ 7/10Also crime and dramaFed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
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Time Without Pity (1957)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and dramaAlec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a…
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and dramaRecently 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.
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Scarlet Street (1945)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crimeCashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find…
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They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and crimeAfter being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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Witness to Murder (1954)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and dramaA woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
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The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crimeCleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
★ 7/10Also drama and crimeA Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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Dial M for Murder (1954)
★ 8/10Also crime and dramaWhen her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.