Movies like A Life in the Balance

20 movies like A Life in the Balance, ordered by similarity : On Dangerous Ground(1951), One False Move(1991), Vengeance Is Mine(1979), He Ran All the Way(1951), Badlands(1973), Hera Pheri(1975), Appointment With Danger(1951), Cry of the City(1948), The Departed(2006), The Enforcer(1951), The Glass Key(1942), The Maltese Falcon(1941) ...

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A Life in the Balance

In Mexico City, a working-poor single-father is mistaken for a serial killer by the local cops but the man's son stumbles upon the real killer and tries to warn the police after being abducted.

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On Dangerous Ground

Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.

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One False Move

A small town police chief awaits the arrival of a gang of killers.

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Vengeance Is Mine

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.

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He Ran All the Way

Nick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment and he forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt.

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Badlands

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

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Hera Pheri

Two friends Ajay and Vijay gets separated from each other when they discover secrets about their past in their own ways.

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Appointment With Danger

When ruthlessly dedicated postal inspector investigates the murder of a co-worker, he finds that the sole witness, a nun, has been targeted by the killers.

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Cry of the City

Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome.

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The Departed

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

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The Enforcer

A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.

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The Glass Key

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

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The Maltese Falcon

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

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Roberto Succo

'Kurt' claims to be a sales rep. He also claims to be English in spite of his heavy Italian accent. Kurt is an habitual liar and a dangerous driver, at the very least. In the south of ... See full summary »

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Kiss Me Deadly

A doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".

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Papillon

Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.

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White Heat

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.

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The Guilty

A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.

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Big House, U.S.A.

Gerry Barker finds a lost boy whose rich father is extorted into paying a ransom for his return but the boy accidentally dies and Jerry goes to prison.

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Mother

A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.

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Alias Boston Blackie

Blackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a Christmas magic show.

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