Films like The Reckless Moment
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
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Framed
Film · 1947 · also crime and dramaTruck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her...
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Mildred Pierce
Film · 1945 · also crime and dramaA 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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The Locket
Film · 1946 · also crime and dramaA dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Film · 1949 · also crime and dramaCleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Clev...
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Cause for Alarm!
Film · 1951 · also crime and dramaA bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
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Witness to Murder
Film · 1954 · also crime and dramaA woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
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Time Without Pity
Film · 1957 · also crime and dramaAlec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Sta...
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The Dark Past
Film · 1948 · also crime and dramaA gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
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The Web
Film · 1947 · also crime and dramaA brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in ov...
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A Blueprint for Murder
Film · 1953 · also crime and thrillerWhitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband, Cameron's brother, died...
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