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Movies that feel like Killer's Kiss (1955)

If you loved Killer's Kiss, the closest films we have are Blast of Silence (1961), Force of Evil (1950) and Odd Man Out (1947). All three share Killer's Kiss' gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Criterion Channel and Brew and others, checked against today's data.

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.

πŸ… 83% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Stanley Kubricktensegrittycontemplativeatmospheric
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Blast of Silence
1961 Β· dir. Allen Baron
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.4crime Β· drama Β· thriller

New York City shapes both of them

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.

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Force of Evil
1950 Β· dir. Abraham Polonsky
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.2crime Β· drama

One thread runs through both: film noir

The difference: Not nearly as tense as Killer's Kiss

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.

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Odd Man Out
1947 Β· dir. Carol Reed
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Common ground: film noir

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

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The Big Clock
1948 Β· dir. John Farrow
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6crime Β· thriller

Tense where it counts, gritty underneath

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.

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Criss Cross
1949 Β· dir. Robert Siodmak
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.4crime Β· thriller

Atmospheric thriller, and it commits to that

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

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Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 Β· dir. Robert Wise
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.4crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Crime built on stillness, twice over

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

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Scarlet Street
1945 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7drama Β· crime

Gritty drama in both cases

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

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The Narrow Margin
1952 Β· dir. Richard Fleischer
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6thriller Β· crime

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.

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The Lady from Shanghai
1947 Β· dir. Orson Welles
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.5mystery Β· crime Β· thriller

Both lean on stillness more than on crime

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Killer's Kiss does

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

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The Naked City
1948 Β· dir. Jules Dassin
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.5crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Atmospheric drama, and it commits to that

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

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The Set-Up
1949 Β· dir. Robert Wise
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.8drama Β· crime

Both lean on grit more than on crime

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

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The Stranger
1946 Β· dir. Orson Welles
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.3thriller Β· crime

Tense thriller in both cases

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.

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