An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
Casts Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr, John Litel, Byron Barr, Jimmy Hunt, Ann Doran, Selmer Jackson, Margaret Wells
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Dead Reckoning
Kiss of Death
Human Desire
The Blue Gardenia
I Wake Up Screaming
The Stranger
Black Angel
Daisy Kenyon
Swimming with Sharks
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Cry of the City
Detour
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Another Woman
Criss Cross
The Woman in Question
The Woman on Pier 13
The Killer Is Loose
The Reckless Moment
Riot in Cell Block 11
SIMILAR MOVIES
Dead Reckoning
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 1946
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.Kiss of Death
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1947
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.Human Desire
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 1954
A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in a sordid affair with a co-worker's wife and murder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, in 1997.The Blue Gardenia
IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 1953
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 attempting to resist his advances.I Wake Up Screaming
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 1941
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.The Stranger
IMDB 7.2 | Jul , 1946
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.Black Angel
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 1946
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.Daisy Kenyon
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 1947
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.Swimming with Sharks
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 1994
Guy is a young film executive who's willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman, a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn, has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 1956
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.Cry of the City
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 1948
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?Detour
IMDB 7.2 | Nov , 1945
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.Lady Chatterley's Lover
IMDB 6.7 | Nov , 2022
Unhappily married aristocrat Lady Chatterley begins a torrid affair — and falls deeply in love — with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.Another Woman
IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 1988
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.Criss Cross
IMDB 7.1 | Feb , 1949
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.The Woman in Question
IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 1950
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.The Woman on Pier 13
IMDB 5.3 | Jun , 1950
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.The Killer Is Loose
IMDB 6.6 | Feb , 1956
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.The Reckless Moment
IMDB 6.8 | Dec , 1949
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.Riot in Cell Block 11
IMDB 7 | Feb , 1954
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.