Films like Oliver Twist
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
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The Outsiders
Film · 1983 · also crime and dramaIn 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy...
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Night and the City
Film · 1950 · also crime and dramaLondoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her...
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The Boys of St. Vincent
Film · 1994 · also crime and dramaThe true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
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Little Caesar
Film · 1931 · also crime and dramaA small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
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Winged Creatures
Film · 2009 · also crime and dramaA psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a docto...
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The Night of the Hunter
Film · 1955 · also crime and dramaIn 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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Robbery
Film · 1967 · also crime and dramaIn this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.
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The Parts You Lose
Film · 2019 · also crime and dramaAn unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
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House of Strangers
Film · 1949 · also crime and dramaRuthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison a...
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Odds Against Tomorrow
Film · 1959 · also crime and dramaAn 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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