Movies like Cornered: 20 to watch next
If you loved Cornered (1945) — a thriller film directed by Edward Dmytryk — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Cornered most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like film noir and post world war ii. 4 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Conflict 1945★ 6.7
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Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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Journey into Fear 1943★ 6.1
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An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
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Nightfall 1956★ 6.9
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An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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Black Widow 1987★ 6.2
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Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.
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Pickup on South Street 1953★ 7.4
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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.
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The Man Between 1953★ 7.2
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A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
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Act of Violence 1949★ 6.9
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A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
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The Locket 1946★ 6.3
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A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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The Man Who Cheated Himself 1950★ 6.2
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A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
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The Glass Key 1942★ 6.7
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A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
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Black Angel 1946★ 6.1
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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.
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The Dark Mirror 1946★ 7.0
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A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
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Sleep, My Love 1948★ 6.3
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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.
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D.O.A. 1949★ 6.9
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Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula, begins to trace back over his last steps. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked businessmen and another murder.
Stream in India on Bloodstream, Brew, JustWatch TV Beta
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What's the Matter with Helen? 1971★ 5.9
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Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
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13 Rue Madeleine 1947★ 6.2
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Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.
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Maniac 1963★ 6.2
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When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
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The Blue Lamp 1950★ 6.6
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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.
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5 Against the House 1955★ 5.9
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Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
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The MacKintosh Man 1973★ 6.1
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A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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