Thriller, Crime
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000. When he decides to return the money, things go wrong - and that is only the beginning of his troubles.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Dark Passage
This Gun for Hire
Kiss Me Deadly
The Letter
Leave Her to Heaven
An Inspector Calls
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Vamps, Blood & Smoking Guns
Suddenly
They Drive by Night
The Asphalt Jungle
The Petrified Forest
In a Lonely Place
Scarlet Street
The Glass Key
The Woman in the Window
The Set-Up
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Gun Crazy
The Desperate Hours
SIMILAR MOVIES
Dark Passage
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 1947
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.This Gun for Hire
IMDB 7 | Apr , 1942
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.Kiss Me Deadly
IMDB 7.2 | Apr , 1955
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.The Letter
IMDB 7.3 | Nov , 1940
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.Leave Her to Heaven
IMDB 7.4 | Dec , 1945
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.An Inspector Calls
IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 1954
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 1950
Ralph Cotter, a ruthless criminal, escapes violently from a farm prison. Then, he seduces a dead inmate’s sister, gets back quickly into the crime business, faces corrupt local cops who run the city’s underworld and meets a powerful tycoon’s whimsical daughter.Vamps, Blood & Smoking Guns
IMDB 2 | Sep , 2012
A hard-boiled female detective has to solve a murder plot orchestrated by vampires.Suddenly
IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 1954
The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.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 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.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 7.4 | Mar , 1949
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.Where the Sidewalk Ends
IMDB 7.2 | Jul , 1950
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.Gun Crazy
IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 1950
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.The Desperate Hours
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1955
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.