Movies like The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
The best movies like The Damned Don't Cry (1950) are The Sound of Fury (1950), When Strangers Marry (1944) and Nobody Lives Forever (1946). If The Damned Don't Cry hooked you with its crime and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Letter (1940)7.3/10 from 262 votes
- NewestFemale Jungle (1956)Released 1956
The Sound of Fury (1950)
A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhen Strangers Marry (1944)
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
City That Never Sleeps (1953)
Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Female Jungle (1956)
Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Woman in Hiding (1950)
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Shed No Tears (1948)
A man listens to his wife and fakes his own death so that she can get her hands on his insurance policy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Sleep, My Love (1948)
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBewitched (1945)
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWicked Woman (1953)
Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on Billie jeopardizes her plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Cause for Alarm! (1951)
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Wake Up Screaming (1941)
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDanger Signal (1945)
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then staging her death to look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Female on the Beach (1955)
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent and Drummond Hall, her beachcomber neighbor, making themselves quite at home. Lynn soon has no doubts of what her scheming neighbors are up to, but she finds Drummond's physical charms hard to resist. And she still doesn't know what really happened to Eloise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Hollow Triumph (1948)
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Woman on Pier 13 (1950)
Communists blackmail a shipping executive into spying for them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dead Reckoning (1946)
War heroes Rip Murdock and Johnny Drake are sent to Washington, D.C, to receive top honors for their service. Johnny, seemingly terrified by the publicity that awaits him, jumps off the train and later turns up dead. Suspecting foul play, Rip begins digging into his pal's past. He encounters cover-ups, threats to his own life and deadly femme fatale Coral Chandler.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Won't Believe Me (1947)
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPhantom Lady (1944)
A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMoontide (1942)
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeadline at Dawn (1946)
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The Letter (1940)
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Secret Fury (1950)
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Road House (1948)
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas Holiday (1944)
A young femme fatale realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Deception (1946)
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNo Man of Her Own (1950)
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Woman's Face (1941)
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Damned Don't Cry?
The closest matches to The Damned Don't Cry are The Sound of Fury (1950), When Strangers Marry (1944) and Nobody Lives Forever (1946). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Damned Don't Cry?
People who watched The Damned Don't Cry most often go on to The Sound of Fury (1950), When Strangers Marry (1944) and Nobody Lives Forever (1946).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Damned Don't Cry?
The Letter (1940), rated 7.3/10 by 262 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Damned Don't Cry?
Female Jungle (1956) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Damned Don't Cry?
Yes: The Sound of Fury (1950), When Strangers Marry (1944) and Nobody Lives Forever (1946).
How are movies similar to The Damned Don't Cry chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Damned Don't Cry, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.