Movies like Armored Car Robbery: 20 to watch next
If you loved Armored Car Robbery (1950) — a thriller, crime and action film directed by Richard Fleischer — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Armored Car Robbery most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like cop-killer, striptease and armored car. 4 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Criss Cross 1949★ 7.1
Shares: Crime, Thriller
An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Pushover 1954★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Thriller
A police detective falls for the bank robber's girlfriend he is supposed to be tailing.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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He Walked by Night 1949★ 6.7
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
Stream in India on Artiflix, JustWatch TV Beta, Plex
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Crime Wave 1953★ 7.1
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Naked Alibi 1954★ 6.1
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of tough Chief Conroy, who pursues him doggedly despite lack of evidence. The obsessed Conroy is dismissed from the force, but continues to harass Willis, who flees to a sleazy town on the Mexican border. Of course, Conroy follows. But which is crazy, Conroy or Willis?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Where the Sidewalk Ends 1950★ 7.2
Shares: Crime, Thriller
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Stream in India on Plex
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Desperate 1947★ 6.5
Shares: Thriller, Crime
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Narrow Margin 1952★ 7.3
Shares: Thriller, Crime
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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This Gun for Hire 1942★ 7.0
Shares: Crime, Thriller
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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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They Made Me a Fugitive 1947★ 6.6
Shares: Thriller, Crime
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Union Station 1950★ 6.5
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and get back the blind daughter of a rich business man.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Web 1947★ 7.1
Shares: Crime, Thriller
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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5 Against the House 1955★ 5.9
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Mirror Crack'd 1980★ 6.1
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Harper 1966★ 6.7
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Hunter 1980★ 5.9
Shares: Thriller, Action
During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Pickup on South Street 1953★ 7.4
Shares: Thriller, Crime
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
Stream in India on Plex
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Each Dawn I Die 1939★ 6.9
Shares: Crime, Thriller
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Thunder Road 1958★ 6.0
Shares: Crime, Action, Thriller
Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan, who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett, who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.
Stream in India on Tubi TV
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The Blue Lamp 1950★ 6.6
Shares: Crime, Thriller, Action
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now