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Movies Like Experiment Alcatraz

If you liked Experiment Alcatraz (1950), a crime movie directed by Edward L. Cahn, 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. 1Point Blank

    Point Blank (1967)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

  2. 2The Mirror Crack'd

    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.

  3. 3The Naked City

    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.

  4. 4You Only Live Once

    You Only Live Once (1937)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    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…

  5. 5Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game

    Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game (2018)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    Crime-solving librarian Aurora Teagarden leaps headfirst into Lawrenceton’s latest murder investigation when her nephew Phillip and his college roommate go missing after the roommate’s girlfriend is found dead…

  6. 6Murder Most Foul

    Murder Most Foul (1964)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his guilt. Once again she begins her own investigation.

  7. 7The 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…

  8. 8Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

    Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    Librarian and real crime buff Aurora “Roe” Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead. When his body is found outside of Aurora’s home, she then becomes the main…

  9. 9Shadow of a Doubt

    Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime

    In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle…

  10. 10Murder!

    Murder! (1930)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime

    When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by…

  11. 11The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

    The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

    ★ 7.3/10Also crime

    When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

  12. 12Black Angel

    Black Angel (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.

  13. 13Footsteps in the Fog

    Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

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

  14. 14Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

  15. 15Murder Ahoy

    Murder Ahoy (1964)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The…

  16. 16Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    Alec 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…

  17. 17Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

    Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the…

  18. 18The Brotherhood of Justice

    The Brotherhood of Justice (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime

    High-school students start a vigilante group in their neighbourhood but, as their power increases, they become more abusive and dangerous.

  19. 19Murder at the Gallop

    Murder at the Gallop (1963)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again…

  20. 20Absence of Malice

    Absence of Malice (1981)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    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…

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