Movies Like The Captive City

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

Scarface

1932·1h 33m·★ 7.7·Howard Hawks

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They Live by Night

1949·1h 36m·★ 7.4·Nicholas Ray

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M

1931·1h 50m·★ 8.3·Fritz Lang

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Mildred Pierce

1945·1h 51m·★ 7.9·Michael Curtiz

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Cape Fear

1962·1h 45m·★ 7.7·J. Lee Thompson

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Road to Perdition

2002·1h 57m·★ 7.6·Sam Mendes

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The Lady from Shanghai

1947·1h 27m·★ 7.5·Orson Welles

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Hardly a Criminal

1949·1h 28m·★ 7.3·Hugo Fregonese

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The Forger

2014·1h 35m·★ 5.8·Philip Martin

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Out of the Past

1947·1h 37m·★ 7.9·Jacques Tourneur

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Strangers on a Train

1951·1h 41m·★ 7.9·Alfred Hitchcock

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The Big Sleep

1946·1h 54m·★ 7.9·Howard Hawks

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Gilda

1946·1h 50m·★ 7.6·Charles Vidor

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The Web

1947·1h 27m·★ 7.1·Michael Gordon

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The Big Combo

1955·1h 28m·★ 7.3·Joseph H. Lewis

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The Mask of Dimitrios

1944·1h 35m·★ 7.2·Jean Negulesco

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The Damned Don't Cry

1950·1h 43m·★ 7.1·Vincent Sherman

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Each Dawn I Die

1939·1h 32m·★ 7.2·William Keighley

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Violent Saturday

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