Movies like Edge of the City: 20 to watch next
If you loved Edge of the City (1957) — a drama, crime and romance film directed by Martin Ritt — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Edge of the City most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like male friendship, murder and racism. 7 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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The Wild One 1953★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Crime, Romance
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Manhattan Melodrama 1934★ 7.0
Shares: Crime, Drama, Romance
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Locket 1946★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Crime
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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House of Bamboo 1955★ 6.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Fallen Angel 1945★ 6.6
Shares: Crime, Drama, Romance
An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
Stream in India on Plex
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Each Dawn I Die 1939★ 6.9
Shares: Crime, Drama
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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They Won't Believe Me 1947★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Romance
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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No Way Out 1950★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Crime
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Flesh and the Devil 1926★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Romance
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
Stream in India on JustWatch TV Beta, 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
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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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Kid Galahad 1962★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, Crime
After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Time Without Pity 1957★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Blackmail 1929★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Crime
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
Stream in India on Artiflix, JustWatch TV Beta, Plex
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The Letter 1940★ 7.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Autumn Leaves 1956★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Romance
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
Stream in India on Artiflix
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An Inspector Calls 1954★ 7.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
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?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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You Only Live Once 1937★ 7.1
Shares: Crime, Drama, Romance
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Stream in India on Plex
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They Live by Night 1949★ 6.8
Shares: Crime, Romance, Drama
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Naked City 1948★ 7.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
Stream in India on Artiflix, Plex