Movies like Yield to the Night: 20 to watch next

If you loved Yield to the Night (1956) — a drama and crime film directed by J. Lee Thompson — these 20 movies are the closest matches.

The first picks are what fans of Yield to the Night most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like death penalty, based on novel or book and cheating. 5 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.

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1
The Killer Is Loose 1956★ 6.7
Shares: Crime
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
2
20,000 Years in Sing Sing 1932★ 6.4
Shares: Crime, Drama
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
3
Ladies They Talk About 1933★ 6.2
Shares: Crime, Drama
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.
Stream in India on Plex
4
Caged 1950★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Stream in India on Plex
5
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
6
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
7
The Big House 1930★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
8
Footsteps in the Fog 1955★ 7.0
Shares: 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
9
Dog Pound 2010★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
10
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
11
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
12
12 Angry Men 1957★ 8.6
Shares: Drama
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel
13
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
14
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
15
Johnny O'Clock 1947★ 6.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
16
Hollow Triumph 1948★ 6.6
Shares: Crime
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Stream in India on Artiflix, Plex
17
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
18
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
19
Ride the Pink Horse 1947★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
20
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