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Movies Like Hit and Run

If you liked Hit and Run (1957), a drama and crime movie directed by Hugo Haas, 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. 1Force of Evil

    Force of Evil (1950)

    ★ 6.7/10Also 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…

  2. 2Pitfall

    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.

  3. 3Scarlet Street

    Scarlet Street (1945)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime

    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…

  4. 4Johnny Eager

    Johnny Eager (1941)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

  5. 5Impact

    Impact (1949)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

  6. 6Double Indemnity

    Double Indemnity (1944)

    ★ 8.1/10Also crime

    An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.

  7. 7Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  8. 8Gaslight

    Gaslight (1944)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime

    A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

  9. 9Mildred Pierce

    Mildred Pierce (1945)

    ★ 7.6/10Also crime and drama

    A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

  10. 10Niagara

    Niagara (1953)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is…

  11. 11Desperate

    Desperate (1947)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

  12. 12Nightfall

    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.

  13. 13An Inspector Calls

    An Inspector Calls (1954)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and drama

    An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in…

  14. 14Greed

    Greed (1924)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and crime

    When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.

  15. 15The Truth About Emanuel

    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.

  16. 16The Dark Corner

    The Dark Corner (1946)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama

    Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in…

  17. 17The 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…

  18. 18Thunder Road

    Thunder Road (1958)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from…

  19. 19The Natural

    The Natural (1984)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.

  20. 20The Locket

    The Locket (1946)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and crime

    A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

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