Movies like Johnny Eager
If Johnny Eager's mix of self sacrifice, gambling and staged death stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Johnny Eager's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950 · Directed by Otto Preminger · 95 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: taxi driver, film noir, illegal gambling · Also crime and drama
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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Mildred Pierce
1945 · Directed by Michael Curtiz · 111 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: film noir, frame up · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1940s)
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 · Directed by Michael Curtiz · 97 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, film noir · Also crime and drama
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
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The Roaring Twenties
1939 · Directed by Raoul Walsh · 104 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also crime and drama
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver.
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The Man with the Golden Arm
1955 · Directed by Otto Preminger · 119 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: gambling · Also drama and crime
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer.
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Double Indemnity
1944 · Directed by Billy Wilder · 107 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · From the same decade (1940s)
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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Dial M for Murder
1954 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 105 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso crime and drama
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.