Movies Like Murder Without Crime

If you liked Murder Without Crime (1950), a crime and thriller movie directed by J. Lee Thompson, 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
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.
2
Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also crime
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
3
Conflict (1945)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
4
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.
5
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…
6
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.
7
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…
8
LaRoy, Texas (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and thriller
Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.
9
The Glass Key (1942)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and thriller
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
10
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
★ 6.7/10Also crime
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…
11
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.
12
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
★ 7/10Also thriller and crime
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
13
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…
14
Murder in Three Acts (1986)
★ 6/10Also crime
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.
15
A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and crime
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
16
Deathtrap (1982)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
17
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
★ 7/10Also crime
While 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…
18
While the City Sleeps (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
19
5 Against the House (1955)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and thriller
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
20
Sleep, My Love (1948)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.