Movies Similar to Nightbeat

Yield to the Night(1956)

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands(1948)

Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.

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The Brothers(1947)

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

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Clash by Night(1964)

A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.

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The Last Page(1952)

A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.

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Daybreak(1948)

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

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Chase a Crooked Shadow(1958)

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.

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Corridor of Mirrors(1948)

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

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Odd Man Out(1947)

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

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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By(1952)

A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company funds but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.

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Brighton Rock(1948)

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

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Behind the Headlines(1956)

Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.

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Panic(1963)

In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her boyfriend is behind the scheme. First he sends two accomplices disguised as German jewelers to see the boss. He is not fooled by their ruse and is killed while the woman is knocked unconscious. She awakens with amnesia and begins aimlessly wandering the London streets. Thinking that his girl has squealed to the police, her boy friend begins scouring the town to find her. Meanwhile, she is taken in by a boxer who returns to the ring to win the money needed to get her out of the country. Trouble ensues when her lover finally finds her after the match and begins beating on the exhausted fighter.

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Cosh Boy(1953)

Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.

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Stolen Face(1952)

A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.

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Blind Date(1959)

Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.

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The Gambler and the Lady(1952)

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.

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Footsteps in the Fog(1955)

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

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Hell Drivers(1957)

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

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The Upturned Glass(1947)

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.

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