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10 Best Movies Like Yield to the Night

If you loved Yield to the Night, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once

1937★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yield to the Night for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is for...

#2
The Killer Is Loose

The Killer Is Loose

1956★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yield to the Night for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole...

#3
20,000 Years in Sing Sing

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

1932★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yield to the Night for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him....

#4
The Big House

The Big House

1930★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yield to the Night for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal con...

#5
They Won't Believe Me

They Won't Believe Me

1947★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yield to the Night for fans of Drama. 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
Ladies They Talk About

Ladies They Talk About

1933★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yield to the Night for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot....

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