Movies Like Behind the Headlines

If you liked Behind the Headlines (1956), a drama and crime movie directed by Charles Saunders, 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
While the City Sleeps (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
2
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
Blackmail (1929)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and crime
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and…
4
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.
5
The Big Knife (1955)
★ 6/10Also crime and drama
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's films and wants to start a new life. While…
6
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.
7
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.
8
The Big Clock (1948)
★ 7.3/10Also crime
George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the…
9
The Interview (1998)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted?
10
Lady in the Lake (1946)
★ 6.1/10Also crime
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to…
11
Pitfall (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
An 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.
12
The Naked City (1948)
★ 7.2/10Also crime
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
13
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…
14
Perfect Sisters (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and crime
Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
15
This Gun for Hire (1942)
★ 7/10Also crime
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new…
16
The Blue Lamp (1950)
★ 6.6/10Also crime
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also…
17
Five Star Final (1931)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
18
Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
19
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also crime
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
20
Little Caesar (1931)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?