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

Framed
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straightaway for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend...

The Damned Don't Cry
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straightaway for fans of Crime & Drama. 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....

House of Bamboo
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straightaway for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals....

Cry of the City
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straightaway for fans of Crime & Drama. 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...

Knock on Any Door
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straightaway for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court....

Each Dawn I Die
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straightaway for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in ord...