Crime, Drama
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Killing
Shaft's Big Score!
Casino
Out of the Past
The Man with the Golden Arm
Secret Beyond the Door
Sunset Boulevard
A Bronx Tale
Les Biches
Murder, My Sweet
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Camorra
The Asphalt Jungle
The Petrified Forest
In a Lonely Place
Scarlet Street
They Drive by Night
The Glass Key
The Woman in the Window
The Set-Up
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Killing
IMDB 7.7 | Jun , 1956
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.Shaft's Big Score!
IMDB 6 | Jun , 1972
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.Casino
IMDB 8 | Nov , 1995
In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.Out of the Past
IMDB 7.6 | Nov , 1947
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.The Man with the Golden Arm
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 1955
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 former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.Secret Beyond the Door
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1947
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.Sunset Boulevard
IMDB 8.3 | Aug , 1950
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.A Bronx Tale
IMDB 7.9 | Oct , 1993
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.Les Biches
IMDB 6 | Mar , 1968
A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local architect and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.Murder, My Sweet
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 1944
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.Their Eyes Were Watching God
IMDB 5.5 | Mar , 2005
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.Camorra
IMDB 5.8 | Aug , 1972
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".The Asphalt Jungle
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1950
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.The Petrified Forest
IMDB 7.1 | Feb , 1936
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.In a Lonely Place
IMDB 7.6 | May , 1950
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.Scarlet Street
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 1945
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.They Drive by Night
IMDB 6.9 | Jul , 1940
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.The Glass Key
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 1942
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.The Woman in the Window
IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 1944
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.The Set-Up
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 1949
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.