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Movies that feel likeKiller's Kiss (1955)

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.

If you loved Killer's Kiss, the closest films we have are Blast of Silence (1961), Odd Man Out (1947) and Force of Evil (1950). All three share Killer's Kiss' gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Stanley Kubricktensegrittycontemplativeatmospheric
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Blast of Silence
1961 · dir. Allen Baron
🍅 83%★ 7.4crime · drama · 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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Odd Man Out
1947 · dir. Carol Reed
🍅 100%★ 7.6crime · drama · thrillerMax

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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Force of Evil
1950 · dir. Abraham Polonsky
🍅 100%★ 7.2crime · drama

One thread runs through both: film noir

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Killer's Kiss does

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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The Big Clock
1948 · dir. John Farrow
🍅 100%★ 7.6crime · 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 · dir. Robert Siodmak
🍅 86%★ 7.4crime · 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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Shoot the Piano Player
1960 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 90%★ 7.4drama · thriller · crimeMax

Both lean on stillness more than on crime

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

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Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 88%★ 7.4crime · drama · thriller

Drama built on tension, 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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The Narrow Margin
1952 · dir. Richard Fleischer
🍅 100%★ 7.6thriller · crime

Thriller with a pulse of grit, 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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Le Doulos
1962 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 96%★ 7.7drama · thriller · crime

Contemplative crime in both cases

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?

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Touch of Evil
1958 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 96%★ 7.9crime · thriller · dramaPrime Video

Atmospheric drama, and it commits to that

A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.

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The Night of the Hunter
1955 · dir. Charles Laughton
🍅 93%★ 7.9crime · drama · thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

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The Stranger
1946 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 97%★ 7.3thriller · crimePrime VideoStarz

Gritty crime 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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