Movies like Johnny O'Clock: 20 to watch next
If you loved Johnny O'Clock (1947) — a crime and drama film directed by Robert Rossen — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Johnny O'Clock most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like gambling, film noir and club. 2 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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5 Against the House 1955★ 5.9
Shares: Crime, Drama
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 Set-Up 1949★ 7.4
Shares: Drama, Crime
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Force of Evil 1950★ 6.7
Shares: Crime, Drama
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Nightfall 1956★ 6.9
Shares: Crime
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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711 Ocean Drive 1950★ 6.4
Shares: Crime
A telephone repairman in Los Angeles uses his knowledge of electronics to help a bookie set up a betting operation. After the bookie is murdered, the greedy technician takes over his business. He ruthlessly climbs his way to the top of the local crime syndicate, but then gangsters from a big East Coast mob show up wanting a piece of his action.
Stream in India on Bloodstream
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Plunder Road 1957★ 6.9
Shares: Crime, Drama
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Angels with Dirty Faces 1938★ 7.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
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 Damned Don't Cry 1950★ 7.0
Shares: Crime, Drama
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Kiss Before Dying 1956★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Crime
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
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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He Ran All the Way 1951★ 7.2
Shares: Crime
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
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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They Made Me a Fugitive 1947★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, 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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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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The Blue Gardenia 1953★ 6.5
Shares: Crime
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Web 1947★ 7.1
Shares: Crime, Drama
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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Pitfall 1948★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Crime
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Dark Corner 1946★ 6.6
Shares: Crime, Drama
Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Glass Key 1942★ 6.7
Shares: Crime
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