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Movies Like The Crooked Web

If you liked The Crooked Web (1955), a crime and drama movie directed by Nathan Juran, 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. 1Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama

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

  2. 2Nightfall

    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.

  3. 35 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.

  4. 4The 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…

  5. 5The Glass Key

    The Glass Key (1942)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

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

  6. 6Sleep, My Love

    Sleep, My Love (1948)

    ★ 6.3/10Also 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.

  7. 7The Big Combo

    The Big Combo (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and crime

    Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

  8. 8Framed

    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…

  9. 9The Locket

    The Locket (1946)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and crime

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

  10. 10They Made Me a Fugitive

    They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and crime

    After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

  11. 11A Kiss Before Dying

    A Kiss Before Dying (1956)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and crime

    A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.

  12. 12Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and drama

    In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

  13. 13The 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.

  14. 14House of Bamboo

    House of Bamboo (1955)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama

    Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

  15. 15Black 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.

  16. 16Pickup on South Street

    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…

  17. 17The 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.

  18. 18Point Blank

    Point Blank (1967)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    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.

  19. 19Each 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.

  20. 20Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    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…

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