Best movies like Almost a Gentleman

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The Jury's Secret

A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.

The Biscuit Eater

Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' fathers. And if Georgia Boy doesn't win, the fathers may both lose their jobs.

Central Park

Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.

Double Jeopardy

Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.

Flamingo Road

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.

Fatal Instinct

Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He crosses paths with seductive Lola Cain during an assignment and promptly begins an affair with her. Meanwhile, Ned's wife, Lana, is deep in an affair of her own. Lana and her lover are planning to murder Ned in an elaborate fashion so they can collect on his triple indemnity life insurance policy.

Private Detective

A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.

Society Dog Show

Rather out of place at a swanky dog show, Pluto flirts with Fifi, a dainty Pekingese. The judge orders Mickey and Pluto to leave, but when a fire breaks out Pluto rescues Fifi and is proclaimed a hero.

Tish

In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.

The Final Hour

A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge.

Stop! Look! and Laugh!

Moe, Larry and Curly appear in short subjects linked by ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies.

The Sellout

A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.

Midnight Alibi

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.

The Spellbinder

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?

Mokey

A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.

Transient Lady

A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.

Lady Chaser

A poisoned aspirin creates headaches for a woman who received the deadly pill from a stranger, then passed it on to her uncle.

The Spanish Cape Mystery

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

15 Maiden Lane

Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.

The Last Express

A woman finds herself unwillingly mixed up in a series of murders. At the behest of the district attorney, private detective Duncan MacLain (Kent Taylor) investigates the probability of corruption in high government circles.

Federal Man-Hunt

By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies and local police are out to catch him with roadblocks and every car searched, but the escapee gets away. Bill Hasford, a private detective, investigating a racket finds it leads to the wanted man, and has the biggest adventure of his career.

Laughing at Trouble

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.

Before Midnight

A detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.

The Right of Way

Snobbish attorney Charles 'Beauty' Steele loses his wife due to his drinking and his heirs at the same time that his brother-in-law absconds with funds belonging to one of Steele's clients. In search of the thief, Steele is attacked and left for dead. He is rescued by a kindly couple, but suffers from amnesia. He starts life afresh and is happy, until the return of his memory sends him back to resolve his old involvements.

Sign of the Wolf

Two German shepherds and their mistress (Grace Bradley) crash-land in Canada by a fox breeder's (Michael Whalen) farm.

Bengal Tiger

After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.

Broadway Hostess

Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.

The Captain's Kid

In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn't commit.

Day of Reckoning

In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.

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