swap_horiz Rififi Alternatives

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Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil is a 1958 American noir by Orson Welles, famous for its border-town corruption story and elaborate opening...

Classic Universal 1950S Corruption

9.4 Excellent

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Heat

Heat is a 1995 American crime epic directed by Michael Mann, famous for pairing Al Pacino and Robert De Niro and for its...

Crime Neo Noir 1990S Heist

9.3 Excellent

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Le Samourai

Le Samourai is a 1967 French-Italian neo-noir by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Alain Delon as the methodical hitman Jef...

Minimalist 1960S French Noir Hitman

9.2 Excellent

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The Killing

The Killing is a 1956 American heist noir by Stanley Kubrick, notable for its fractured chronology around a racetrack ro...

Classic 1950S Heist Kubrick

8.9 Great

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Le Cercle Rouge

Le Cercle Rouge is a 1970 French-Italian crime film by Jean-Pierre Melville, noted for a climactic jewelry heist staged...

Crime 1970S Heist French Noir

8.8 Great

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The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point is a 1950 American film noir by Michael Curtiz, adapted from Hemingway's To Have and Have Not and sta...

Classic Crime 1950S Warner

8.5 Great

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The Narrow Margin

The Narrow Margin is a 1952 RKO train noir by Richard Fleischer, notable as a low-budget thriller that earned an Oscar n...

Classic Crime 1950S Train

8.4 Great

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Thief

Thief is a 1981 American neo-noir directed by Michael Mann, with James Caan as a professional safecracker and Tangerine...

Crime 1980S Neo Noir Heist

8.3 Great

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Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Touchez Pas au Grisbi is a 1954 French-Italian gangster film by Jacques Becker, starring Jean Gabin in a Paris underworl...

Crime Gangster 1950S French Noir

8.2 Great

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Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1950 American noir by Otto Preminger, reuniting Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in a story of...

Classic Police 1950S Fox

8.1 Great

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Murder by Contract

Murder by Contract is a 1958 American film noir by Irving Lerner, noted for Vince Edwards as a detached hitman and its s...

Classic Minimalist 1950S Columbia

8.1 Great

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Bob le Flambeur

Bob le Flambeur is a 1956 French heist film by Jean-Pierre Melville, often cited as both film noir and a precursor to th...

1950S Gambling Heist French Noir

8.1 Great

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Riot in Cell Block 11

Riot in Cell Block 11 is a 1954 prison noir by Don Siegel, notable for Walter Wanger's production and location shooting...

Classic Social 1950S Prison

8.0 Great

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Try and Get Me!

Try and Get Me! is the reissue title of Cy Endfield's 1950 noir The Sound of Fury, a United Artists crime film drawn fro...

Classic Crime 1950S United Artists

7.9 Good

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Odds Against Tomorrow

Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 American noir by Robert Wise, notable for using a heist plot to examine racial tension i...

Classic Social 1950S Heist

7.8 Good

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Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 heist noir by Phil Karlson, notable for masked robbers unknown to one another and Joh...

Classic 1950S Heist United Artists

7.7 Good

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Plunder Road

Plunder Road is a 1957 American film noir by Hubert Cornfield, built around a San Francisco mint-train gold robbery and...

Classic 1950S Truck Heist

7.3 Good

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The Burglar

The Burglar is a 1957 American film noir directed by Paul Wendkos, based on David Goodis's novel and shot partly in Phil...

Classic Crime 1950S Heist

6.7 Fair

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The Good Die Young

The Good Die Young is a 1954 British crime film by Lewis Gilbert, with Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, and Stanley Bake...

Crime 1950S Heist British Noir

6.7 Fair

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The Scarlet Hour

The Scarlet Hour is a 1956 Paramount noir directed and produced by Michael Curtiz, notable as a late-career crime film f...

Classic Crime 1950S Heist

6.3 Fair