Movies like On Dangerous Ground: 20 to watch next
If you loved On Dangerous Ground (1951) — a drama and crime film directed by Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of On Dangerous Ground most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like small town, police brutality and based on novel or book. 4 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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The Blue Lamp 1950★ 6.6
Shares: Crime
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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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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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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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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The Racket 1951★ 6.3
Shares: Crime
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Born to Kill 1947★ 6.7
Shares: Crime, Drama
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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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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Brighton Rock 1948★ 6.8
Shares: Crime, Drama
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors 1992★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Crime
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Street with No Name 1948★ 6.4
Shares: Crime
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Little Caesar 1931★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, Crime
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Stream in India on Plex
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder 2022★ 7.0
Shares: Crime, Drama
A murder investigation is reignited in a house that is considered haunted by the Lawrenceton locals and where years ago Aurora and Sally, as teenagers, discovered a body.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Witness to Murder 1954★ 6.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
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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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
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Pickup on South Street 1953★ 7.4
Shares: 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 Strange Affair of Uncle Harry 1945★ 6.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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He Walked by Night 1949★ 6.7
Shares: 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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Bad Day at Black Rock 1955★ 7.3
Shares: Drama, Crime
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Odd Man Out 1947★ 7.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
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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Murder in Three Acts 1986★ 6.0
Shares: Crime, Drama
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now