Movies Like Tread Softly Stranger

If you liked Tread Softly Stranger (1958), a crime and drama movie directed by Gordon Parry, 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
Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
2
Force of Evil (1950)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring…
3
The Wrong Man (1956)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
4
Criss Cross (1949)
★ 7.1/10Also crime
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
5
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?
6
5 Against the House (1955)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
7
Pushover (1954)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
8
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.
9
Pickup on South Street (1953)
★ 7.4/10Also crime
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified…
10
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…
11
Odd Man Out (1947)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
12
Framed (1947)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame…
13
The Set-Up (1949)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and crime
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
14
Nightfall (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also crime
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
15
Desperate (1947)
★ 6.5/10Also crime
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
16
Johnny O'Clock (1947)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama
When 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…
17
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…
18
Johnny Eager (1941)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
19
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.
20
Union Station (1950)
★ 6.5/10Also crime
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a…