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Movies Like The Forgotten Law

If you liked The Forgotten Law (1922), a drama movie directed by James W. Horne, 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 File on Thelma Jordon

    The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

  2. 2Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also 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…

  3. 3People Like Us

    People Like Us (2012)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never…

  4. 4Dial M for Murder

    Dial M for Murder (1954)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

  5. 5Hamlet

    Hamlet (1948)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as…

  6. 6Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…

  7. 7Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

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

  8. 8The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

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

  9. 9Black or White

    Black or White (2015)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.

  10. 10The Blue Dahlia

    The Blue Dahlia (1946)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

  11. 11Strangers on a Train

    Strangers on a Train (1951)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

  12. 12Greed

    Greed (1924)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.

  13. 13Othello

    Othello (1951)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.

  14. 14The Woman in the Window

    The Woman in the Window (1944)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

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

  15. 15Won't Back Down

    Won't Back Down (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for…

  16. 16The Asphalt Jungle

    The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    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.

  17. 17True Grit

    True Grit (1969)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of…

  18. 18Born to Kill

    Born to Kill (1947)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

  19. 195 Against the House

    5 Against the House (1955)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

  20. 20Mildred Pierce

    Mildred Pierce (1945)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

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