Best movies like City of Chance

She wanted thrills --- and she found them in the dangerous hours before dawn!

A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like City of Chance Starring Lynn Bari, C. Aubrey Smith, Donald Woods, Amanda Duff, and more. If you liked City of Chance then you may also like: Waterfront, Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard, Women Are Trouble, The Narrowing Circle, Night Birds and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.

selected filters: Sort: Default

You may filter the list of movies on this page for a more refined, personalized selection of movies.

Still not sure what to watch click the recommend buttun below to get a movie recommendation selected from all the movies on this list

Know any good movies to watch like City of Chance 1940. With a similar plot or stoyline. Suggest it.

Waterfront

A Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his code book, and he must get it back.

Women Are Trouble

A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.

The Narrowing Circle

A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.

Night Birds

Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.

Jail Bait

Don Gregor, the son of famous plastic surgeon Dr. Boris Gregor, begins to hang around with young criminal Vic Brady and carry a gun. The pair attempt an armed holdup, and when things start to go wrong Gregor accidentally kills a night watchman. Fearing that Gregor plans to turn himself in, Brady kills him and blackmails Dr. Gregor into giving him a new face.

Shakedown

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.

The Front Page

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter is looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.

Adventure in Manhattan

The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.

The Spiral Staircase

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

The Devil Is Driving

Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.

Brass Monkey

Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.

Gangs of New York

An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate.

Alias French Gertie

A safecracker poses as a French maid in order to gain access to wealthy homes. In the midst of a nocturnal search for a cache of valuables, she is interrupted by another safecracker. Narrowly escaping arrest, they decide to pool their talents, but she gets the urge to reform and encourages him to do the same.

The Big Tip Off

A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.

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.

Framed

A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.

Dangerous Blondes

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.

A Strange Adventure

A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders committed by a hooded killer in an old dark house.

The Game That Kills

Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join forces to bring the killers to justice.

Behind The Headlines

A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.

Deadline for Murder

A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a missing document.

Headline Hunters

A rookie reporter in pursuit of an expose gets tangled up with big-time mobsters.

I Found Stella Parish

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.

Pier 13

A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.

The Headline Woman

When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.

Find the Witness

A newspaper reporter covering a famous magician's eroding marriage must later prove that the subject was responsible for his wife's murder.

The 13th Man

A tough district attorney has been cleaning up the town, and has already imprisoned twelve dangerous criminals. As he is about to name the target for his next investigation, he is murdered in the midst of a crowd. The police have many suspects and hardly any clues, so two reporters decide to investigate for themselves.

King of the Newsboys

A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.

More related lists

Sort results by:

X close
Default
Clear filters
...