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Movies Like Man Bait

If you liked Man Bait (1952), a drama and crime movie directed by Terence Fisher, 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. 1The Locket

    The Locket (1946)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and crime

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

  2. 2Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

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

  3. 3The Quiller Memorandum

    The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller and drama

    After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

  4. 45 Against the House

    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.

  5. 5Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and thriller

    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…

  6. 6Each Dawn I Die

    Each Dawn I Die (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and 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.

  7. 7The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp (1950)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller

    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…

  8. 8Odd Man Out

    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.

  9. 9Footsteps in the Fog

    Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller and drama

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

  10. 10Blackmail

    Blackmail (1929)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller

    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…

  11. 11Point Blank

    Point Blank (1967)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and thriller

    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.

  12. 12The Web

    The Web (1947)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and 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.

  13. 13The Glass Key

    The Glass Key (1942)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and thriller

    A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

  14. 14Framed

    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…

  15. 15Indemnity

    Indemnity (2022)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and crime

    An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.

  16. 16Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and thriller

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

  17. 17Sleep, My Love

    Sleep, My Love (1948)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and drama

    A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

  18. 18Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game

    Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game (2018)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and 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…

  19. 19Sabotage

    Sabotage (1936)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller

    Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten…

  20. 20Pickup on South Street

    Pickup on South Street (1953)

    ★ 7.4/10Also thriller and 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…

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