10 Best Movies Like Once a Crook
If you loved Once a Crook, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Cry of the City
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Crook for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another cri...

The Damned Don't Cry
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Crook for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

The Unforgivable
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Crook for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past....

The Outfit
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Crook for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to di...

Thick as Thieves
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Crook for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jaz...

Things Change
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Once a Crook for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mi...