Movies Similar to Loan Shark

Strangers on a Train(1951)

Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur tennis player — a theory he plans to test out.

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Secret Beyond the Door(1947)

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

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Sunset Boulevard(1950)

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

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The Hot Month of August(1966)

A young man, Jason, is on his way home and meets two beautiful women, Hope and Alexis. He falls for Hope, but has sex with Alexis. He doesn't know that Alexis' husband has hired a private detective to trail her, and the man reports back to Alexis' husband about her affair with Jason. The husband kills Alexis but the police suspect Jason. He and Hope have to clear his name and find enough evidence to prove the husband is the killer.

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Double Indemnity(1944)

A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on her husband's life insurance.

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Elevator to the Gallows(1958)

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

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Murder, My Sweet(1944)

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

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Iris(2015)

Two businessmen pose as film-makers in order to get away with the murder of a young girl.

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Witness to Murder(1954)

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

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Illegal Entry(1949)

Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.

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5 Against the House(1955)

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

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The Breaking Point(1950)

A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.

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The Mysterious Mr. Valentine(1946)

Janet Spencer is driving down a country road when one of her tires blows out. This seemingly innocuous, everyday occurrence leads Linda into a labyrinth of murder, blackmail and intrigue.

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Barbershop(2002)

A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.

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Key Largo(1948)

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.

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Killer'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.

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Rounders(1998)

A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

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Black Gravel(1961)

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

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High and Low(1963)

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake.

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Cry Terror!(1958)

A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.

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