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Movies Like The Crimson Kimono

If you liked The Crimson Kimono (1959), a romance and drama movie directed by Samuel Fuller, 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. 1Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama

    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…

  2. 2Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    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.

  3. 3Mata Hari

    Mata Hari (1931)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.

  4. 4Strangers on a Train

    Strangers on a Train (1951)

    ★ 7.7/10Also crime and drama

    A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

  5. 5Edge of the City

    Edge of the City (1957)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and crime

    A male army deserter and a black male dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager, in a corrupt environment, and as their connection blossoms they must face the oppressive and morally decaying city they live in.

  6. 6Witness to Murder

    Witness to Murder (1954)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama

    A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

  7. 7Naked Alibi

    Naked Alibi (1954)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama

    Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the…

  8. 8The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window (1944)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime and drama

    A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

  9. 9The File on Thelma Jordon

    The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime

    Cleve 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.

  10. 10Sherlock: The Abominable Bride

    Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016)

    ★ 7.8/10Also crime and drama

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.

  11. 11House of Bamboo

    House of Bamboo (1955)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    Eddie 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.

  12. 12The Big Combo

    The Big Combo (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and 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.

  13. 13Absence of Malice

    Absence of Malice (1981)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells…

  14. 14Footsteps in the Fog

    Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and crime

    A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

  15. 15Each Dawn I Die

    Each Dawn I Die (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

    A 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.

  16. 16Step Up

    Step Up (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.

  17. 17Where the Sidewalk Ends

    Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama

    A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

  18. 18You Only Live Once

    You Only Live Once (1937)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    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…

  19. 19The Wild One

    The Wild One (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and 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…

  20. 20Dial M for Murder

    Dial M for Murder (1954)

    ★ 8/10Also crime and drama

    When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

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