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Movies Like Crime Doctor

If you liked Crime Doctor (1943), a crime movie directed by Michael Gordon, 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. 1Spellbound

    Spellbound (1945)

    ★ 7.4/10Also crime

    When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the…

  2. 2The Man with the Golden Arm

    The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his…

  3. 3I Want to Live!

    I Want to Live! (1958)

    ★ 7/10Also crime

    Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.

  4. 4You 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…

  5. 5The Pink Panther Strikes Again

    The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

    Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

  6. 6Kiss of Death

    Kiss of Death (1947)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime

    An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

  7. 7Somewhere in the Night

    Somewhere in the Night (1946)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.

  8. 8They 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.

  9. 9Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime

    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.

  10. 10The 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.

  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. 12Whirlpool

    Whirlpool (1950)

    ★ 6.4/10Also crime

    The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her…

  13. 13Each Dawn I Die

    Each Dawn I Die (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

    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.

  14. 14The Mechanic

    The Mechanic (1972)

    ★ 6.7/10Also crime

    Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets' deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It's made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he's so depressed and…

  15. 15They 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.

  16. 16Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also crime

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

  17. 17Witness to Murder

    Witness to Murder (1954)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime

    A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

  18. 18Big Trouble

    Big Trouble (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime

    The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad…

  19. 19Illegal

    Illegal (1955)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime

    A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.

  20. 20The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

    ★ 7.5/10Also crime

    Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

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