Movies Like The Honest Thief
If you liked The Honest Thief (1918), a crime movie directed by George B. Seitz, 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.
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Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeA spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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They Live by Night (1949)
★ 6.8/10Also crimeAn 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.
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5 Against the House (1955)
★ 5.9/10Also crimeFormer war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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The Wild One (1953)
★ 6.5/10Also crimeThe Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another…
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Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
★ 6.6/10Also crimeWhen an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeWhen 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.
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Fallen Angel (1945)
★ 6.6/10Also crimeAn 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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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
★ 7.5/10Also crimeRecently 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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Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935)
★ 6.8/10Also crimeA robin is shot so the woodland community holds a trial to investigate.
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Take the Money and Run (1969)
★ 7.1/10Also crimeVirgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
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The Great Train Robbery (1903)
★ 7/10Also crimeAfter the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
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You Only Live Once (1937)
★ 7.1/10Also crimeBased 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…
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Where the Money Is (2000)
★ 5.9/10Also crimeHenry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing…
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Murder at the Gallop (1963)
★ 7.1/10Also crimeMiss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again…
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Nightfall (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeAn innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
★ 7/10Also crimeWhile attending a major horse race with their young son, Nick Jr., Nick and Nora Charles witnesse a shocking murder from the crowded grandstand. What first appears to be an isolated killing soon leads to a maze of…
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Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeFive hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
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House of Bamboo (1955)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeEddie 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.
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
★ 7.7/10Also crimeThe film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child…
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The Naked City (1948)
★ 7.2/10Also crimeAfter a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.