Movies Like Hardly a Criminal

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

Monsieur Verdoux

1947·2h 4m·★ 7.8·Charlie Chaplin

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Mildred Pierce

1945·1h 51m·★ 7.9·Michael Curtiz

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The Lady from Shanghai

1947·1h 27m·★ 7.5·Orson Welles

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Murder, My Sweet

1944·1h 35m·★ 7.5·Edward Dmytryk

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Angel Face

1953·1h 31m·★ 7.2·Otto Preminger

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Crime of Passion

1956·1h 26m·★ 6.4·Gerd Oswald

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Touch of Evil

1958·1h 51m·★ 7.9·Orson Welles

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Out of the Past

1947·1h 37m·★ 7.9·Jacques Tourneur

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The Killing

1956·1h 25m·★ 7.9·Stanley Kubrick

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Laura

1944·1h 28m·★ 7.9·Otto Preminger

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Gilda

1946·1h 50m·★ 7.6·Charles Vidor

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The Asphalt Jungle

1950·1h 53m·★ 7.8·John Huston

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High Sierra

1941·1h 40m·★ 7.5·Raoul Walsh

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The Web

1947·1h 27m·★ 7.1·Michael Gordon

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The Damned Don't Cry

1950·1h 43m·★ 7.1·Vincent Sherman

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They Live by Night

1949·1h 36m·★ 7.4·Nicholas Ray

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

1956·1h 20m·★ 6.9·Fritz Lang

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Pitfall

1948·1h 26m·★ 7.1·André de Toth

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Cry of the City

1948·1h 35m·★ 7.2·Robert Siodmak

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Heist 88

2023·1h 23m·★ 5.3·Menhaj Huda

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How Good Is Hardly a Criminal?

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