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10 Best Movies Like You Only Live Once

If you loved You Only Live Once, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
They Live by Night

They Live by Night

1949★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Only Live Once for fans of Crime & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning....

#2
Black Angel

Black Angel

1946★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Only Live Once for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin...

#3
They Made Me a Fugitive

They Made Me a Fugitive

1947★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Only Live Once for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge....

#4
The Web

The Web

1947★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Only Live Once for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his hea...

#5
They Won't Believe Me

They Won't Believe Me

1947★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Only Live Once for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 o...

#6
Nightfall

Nightfall

1956★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to You Only Live Once for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit....

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