Movies Like Street of Chance (1942)

Street of Chance is a 1942 drama, mystery, thriller film from Jack Hively with a MovieMagicScore of 5.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Girl on the Train and Mysterious Skin.

Drama Mystery Thriller

The Girl on the Train

2016

Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

6.4

MagicScore

Mysterious Skin

2005

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

7.7

MagicScore

The Big Clock

1948

Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.

7.3

MagicScore

Somewhere in the Night

1946

George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.

6.7

MagicScore

The Crooked Way

1949

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.

6.2

MagicScore

The Seventh Veil

1945

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

6.4

MagicScore

Man in the Dark

1953

Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital.

6.0

MagicScore

The Clay Pigeon

1949

Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear himself by enlisting the aid of Martha Gregory, widow of a service buddy he was accused of informing on. Helped also by Ted Niles, a surviving fellow prisoner, he gets closer to finding the answers he needs, and becomes ensnared in a grandiose scheme involving his Japanese ex-prison guard, $10,000,000 of US currency forged by the Japanese and a burgeoning crime network poised to wreak havoc throughout southern California.

5.5

MagicScore

Mirage

1965

In New York City, David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?

7.0

MagicScore

#10

Singapore

1947

After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.

5.9

MagicScore

#11

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

8.1

MagicScore

#12

Angel Heart

1987

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.

7.1

MagicScore

#13

Secret Beyond the Door

1947

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

6.5

MagicScore

#14

Italian Studies

2022

A mysterious woman wanders the streets of Manhattan in a confused state. Finding herself inexplicably drawn to a group of teenagers she embarks on an adventure with them through the cityscape and into the unknown. As the night progresses, she approaches something intangible on the journey back to herself.

5.1

MagicScore

#15

The Bourne Identity

2002

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?

7.5

MagicScore

#16

Rise of the Guardians

2012

When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.

7.4

MagicScore

#17

The Lady from Shanghai

1947

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

7.3

MagicScore

#18

The Naked City

1948

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

7.2

MagicScore

#19

Where the Sidewalk Ends

1950

A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.

7.2

MagicScore

#20

Blast of Silence

1961

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.

7.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Street of Chance?

The top films similar to Street of Chance by MovieMagicScore are The Girl on the Train (6.4), Mysterious Skin (7.7), The Big Clock (7.3). Each shares drama/mystery/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Street of Chance worth watching?

Street of Chance holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.3/10 from 20 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Street of Chance?

Street of Chance (1942) is a drama, mystery, thriller film directed by Jack Hively, starring Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Louise Platt.

Where can I find more recommendations like Street of Chance?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Street of Chance

This ranked list pairs Street of Chance (1942), a drama and mystery and thriller film from Jack Hively, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Burgess Meredith take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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