Movies Like The Wayward Girl

If you liked The Wayward Girl (1957), a drama movie directed by Lesley Selander, 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
I Want to Live! (1958)
★ 7/10Also drama
Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
2
Ladies They Talk About (1933)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
3
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his…
4
Flowers in the Attic (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
5
Madame X (1966)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her. She is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity in order to save the…
6
The Truth About Emanuel (2013)
★ 6/10Also drama
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
7
Dark City (1950)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
War hero Danny Haley fleeces out-of-town dupes in a rigged poker game. He and his pals see Arthur Winant as an easy mark, but they've reckoned without Winant's homicidal brother, who wants revenge after Arthur commits…
8
Johnny Eager (1941)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
9
Yield to the Night (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
10
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
★ 6.9/10Also 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.
11
Dog Pound (2010)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
12
The Reckless Moment (1949)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
13
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
14
Mildred Pierce (1945)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
15
A Woman's Face (1941)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
16
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no…
17
Scarlet Street (1945)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find…
18
Pitfall (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
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.
19
The Web (1947)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
A 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.
20
Woman of Straw (1964)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.