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Movies Like Hunt the Man Down

If you liked Hunt the Man Down (1950), a mystery and crime movie directed by George Archainbaud, 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 Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and mystery

    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…

  2. 2They Made Me a Fugitive

    They Made Me a Fugitive (1947)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime

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

  3. 3The Mirror Crack'd

    The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crime

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

  4. 4Nightfall

    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.

  5. 5You 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…

  6. 6Lady in the Lake

    Lady in the Lake (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery 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…

  7. 7The Web

    The Web (1947)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    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.

  8. 8Murder in Three Acts

    Murder in Three Acts (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and mystery

    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.

  9. 9Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

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

  10. 10A Shot in the Dark

    A Shot in the Dark (1964)

    ★ 7.2/10Also mystery and 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…

  11. 11The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window (1944)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime

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

  12. 12It's a Wonderful World

    It's a Wonderful World (1939)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and mystery

    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…

  13. 13Black Angel

    Black Angel (1946)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and 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.

  14. 14Murder Most Foul

    Murder Most Foul (1964)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and mystery

    A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his guilt. Once again she begins her own investigation.

  15. 15Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and mystery

    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…

  16. 16The Glass Key

    The Glass Key (1942)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and mystery

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

  17. 17Footsteps in the Fog

    Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

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

  18. 18They 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.

  19. 19Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and mystery

    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.

  20. 20Song of the Thin Man

    Song of the Thin Man (1947)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime and mystery

    While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on a young bandleader and his musicians, the couple steps in…

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