Movies like Brighton Rock: 20 to watch next
If you loved Brighton Rock (1948) — a crime, drama and thriller film directed by John Boulting — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Brighton Rock most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like waitress, revenge and film noir. 4 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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They Made Me a Fugitive 1947★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, 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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Each Dawn I Die 1939★ 6.9
Shares: Crime, Drama, 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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Odd Man Out 1947★ 7.3
Shares: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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5 Against the House 1955★ 5.9
Shares: Crime, Drama, 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 Blue Lamp 1950★ 6.6
Shares: Crime, Thriller
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
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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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The Web 1947★ 7.1
Shares: Crime, Drama, 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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Footsteps in the Fog 1955★ 7.0
Shares: Thriller, Drama, Crime
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Locket 1946★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Crime, Thriller
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Asphalt Jungle 1950★ 7.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Born to Kill 1947★ 6.7
Shares: Crime, Drama, Thriller
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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On Dangerous Ground 1951★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Crime
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Sleep, My Love 1948★ 6.3
Shares: Thriller, Drama
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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Glass Key 1942★ 6.7
Shares: Crime, Thriller
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Framed 1947★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Stream in India on JustWatch TV Beta
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The Young Savages 1961★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Drama, Thriller
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
Stream in India on Plex
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Witness to Murder 1954★ 6.3
Shares: Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Nightfall 1956★ 6.9
Shares: Crime, Thriller
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Blueprint for Murder 1953★ 6.2
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died under mysterious circumstances, and now that the death of her stepchild, Polly, has been attributed to poisoning, he suspects that Lynn is after his late brother's estate, and killing everyone in her way.
Stream in India on Plex
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Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story 2004★ 6.1
Shares: Crime, Drama
Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence resolutions which earned him multiple Nobel Peace Prize nominations. After exhausting all forms of appeal, Tookie was executed by lethal injection.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now