Movies Like The Blue Parrot
If you liked The Blue Parrot (1953), a crime and drama movie directed by John Harlow, 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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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 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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House of Bamboo (1955)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and dramaEddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
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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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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also crimeNancy 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…
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Johnny O'Clock (1947)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and dramaWhen 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…
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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 Big Combo (1955)
★ 7/10Also drama and crimePolice Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
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Kid Galahad (1962)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and crimeAfter completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.
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The Locket (1946)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and crimeA dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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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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Nightfall (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeAn innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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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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The Public Enemy (1931)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and dramaTwo young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo…
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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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The Web (1947)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and dramaA 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.
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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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King Creole (1958)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and crimeDelinquent Danny Fisher flunks out of high school, quits his job as a nightclub busboy, and one night gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at…
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Cigarettes & Coffee (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and crimeAt a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut…
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Little Caesar (1931)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crimeA small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?