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Movies Like Bodyguard

If you liked Bodyguard (1948), a thriller and crime movie directed by Richard Fleischer, 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. 1They Made Me a Fugitive

    They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and crime

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

  2. 2Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

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

  3. 3Nightfall

    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.

  4. 4Naked Alibi

    Naked Alibi (1954)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and thriller

    Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the…

  5. 5The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime and thriller

    After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

  6. 6The Mirror Crack'd

    The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and thriller

    Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

  7. 7They Live by Night

    They Live by Night (1949)

    ★ 6.8/10Also crime

    An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.

  8. 8It's a Wonderful World

    It's a Wonderful World (1939)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year…

  9. 9Shadow of a Doubt

    Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

    ★ 7.5/10Also thriller and crime

    In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle…

  10. 10Lady in the Lake

    Lady in the Lake (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and crime

    Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to…

  11. 11He Walked by Night

    He Walked by Night (1949)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller and crime

    Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.

  12. 12Oscar Shaw

    Oscar Shaw (2026)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller

    After retiring from the police force, a relentless detective haunted by the tragic loss of his closest friend sets out on a perilous quest for vengeance, seeking redemption and fighting to restore justice to the…

  13. 13A Shot in the Dark

    A Shot in the Dark (1964)

    ★ 7.2/10Also crime

    Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles…

  14. 14Black Widow

    Black Widow (1987)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple…

  15. 15The 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…

  16. 16You Only Live Once

    You Only Live Once (1937)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham…

  17. 17The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window (1944)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime and thriller

    A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

  18. 18Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and thriller

    When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

  19. 19Pickup 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…

  20. 20Fallen Angel

    Fallen Angel (1945)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

    An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman…

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