Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "going-straight"

1. Better Call Saul (2015–2022)

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama

The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill in the years leading up to his fateful run-in with Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.

Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Jonathan Banks, Patrick Fabian

Votes: 650,678

2. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A naive teenager is sent to rehab camp when her straitlaced parents and friends suspect her of being a lesbian.

Director: Jamie Babbit | Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Michelle Williams, Brandt Wille

Votes: 41,447 | Gross: $2.21M

3. Johnny Dangerously (1984)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Crime

Set in the 1930s, an honest, good-hearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's sky-rocketing medical bills.

Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton

Votes: 16,439

4. Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)

Approved | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

In Prohibition-era Chicago, two rival gangs compete for control of the city's rackets.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby

Votes: 5,697 | Gross: $9.81M

5. Brüno (2009)

R | 81 min | Comedy

Flamboyant, gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.

Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale, Chibundu Orukwowu

Votes: 153,976 | Gross: $60.05M

6. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Loosely based on historical fact, the series portrays the gunslinging Wyatt Earp and his successful determination for law and order.

Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Jimmy Noel, Ethan Laidlaw, Bill Coontz

Votes: 1,117

7. The Flim-Flam Man (1967)

Not Rated | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A rural con artist and an army deserter cheat the townsfolk and are aided by a rich gal who shields the fleeing duo from the wrath of the pursuing sheriff.

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: George C. Scott, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson

Votes: 2,473

8. Making the Grade (1984)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

A spoiled rich young man hires a young hustler, who lives in a broken car and owes money to a dicey loan shark, to take his place in his elite prep school and graduate for him.

Director: Dorian Walker | Stars: Judd Nelson, Jonna Lee, Gordon Jump, Walter Olkewicz

Votes: 1,633 | Gross: $4.56M

9. Gettin' Square (2003)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Barry has good intentions when he is released after 8 years in prison, but finding a job is difficult with a prison record, and he can't keep his kid brother or his friend out of crime.

Director: Jonathan Teplitzky | Stars: Sam Worthington, David Wenham, Timothy Spall, Freya Stafford

Votes: 3,257

10. Les vampires (1915)

Not Rated | 421 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé

Votes: 5,439

11. Believe Me (2014)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

Desperate, broke, and out of ideas, four college seniors start a fake charity to embezzle money for tuition.

Director: Will Bakke | Stars: Alex Russell, Zachary Knighton, Johanna Braddy, Miles Fisher

Votes: 1,188

12. Nightride (2021)

97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Nightride is a real time, one shot thriller about a dealer trying to pull off one last job in order to go straight.

Director: Stephen Fingleton | Stars: Moe Dunford, Joana Ribeiro, Gerard Jordan, Ciaran Flynn

Votes: 922

13. Lonesome Dove Church (2014)

R | 89 min | History, Western

The true story of the formation of the Lonesome Dove Church in Texas.

Director: Terry Miles | Stars: Tom Berenger, Greyston Holt, Alex Zahara, Andrea Whitburn

Votes: 440

14. The Brothers Rico (1957)

Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, Larry Gates

Votes: 1,621

15. Invisible Stripes (1939)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart

Votes: 1,927 | Gross: $0.11M

16. The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)

Passed | 86 min | Drama

Joe Jonathan tries to keep his business on the level after some shady dealings but will his cronies let him?

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Murphy, Anne Shirley, William Gargan, Richard Barthelmess

Votes: 212

17. The Raging Tide (1951)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After a San Francisco gangster murders a rival criminal, he seeks shelter on a fisherman's boat while the police are man-hunting him and pressuring his girlfriend into betrayal.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Shelley Winters, Richard Conte, Stephen McNally, Charles Bickford

Votes: 400

18. Crooks Anonymous (1962)

88 min | Comedy, Crime

Forsdyke, a pathological petty thief subjects himself to a strict correction course run by a wealthy ex-con Widdowes and his Crooks Anonymous organization. Forsdyke's young and innocent ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Julie Christie

Votes: 697

19. Hell's Kitchen (1939)

Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A group of tough city kids have 'graduated' from reform school and are assigned to a "Boy's Town" type of inmate self-government city shelter. The shelter is run by Hiram Krispan (Grant ... See full summary »

Directors: Ewald André Dupont, Lewis Seiler | Stars: The Dead End Kids, Margaret Lindsay, Ronald Reagan, Stanley Fields

Votes: 387

20. Miracle on Main Street (1939)

Approved | 78 min | Drama

The discovery of an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve brings new meaning to a lonely and depressed Los Angeles dancer.

Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Margo, Walter Abel, William Collier Sr., Jane Darwell

Votes: 198

21. Yoo-Na's Street (2014)

57 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Yoo-Na is a unrepentant professional pickpocket with a long rap sheet. Chang-Man is poor and unemployed but aspires to be a social worker. After the two become friends, Yoo-Na tries to turn over a new leaf in life.

Stars: Kim Ok-bin, Lee Hee-joon, Ahn Nae-sang, Kim Hee-Jung

Votes: 43

22. Delinquent Daughters (1944)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama

A town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: June Carlson, Fifi D'Orsay, Teala Loring, Mary Bovard

Votes: 409

23. Walk Cheerfully (1930)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A small-time hood wants to go straight for a good girl but finds that starting over isn't as simple as it sounds.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Minoru Takada, Hiroko Kawasaki, Satoko Date, Takeshi Sakamoto

Votes: 756

24. Fuyu no hana (1978)

121 min | Crime, Drama

A thug is released after fifteen years in prison for the murder of a yakuza gang boss. Things were never going to be simple and bygones were never going to be bygones of course, but to make... See full summary »

Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Kimiko Ikegami, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Bin Amatsu

Votes: 162

25. Women Without Men (1956)

71 min | Crime, Drama

Comedy and drama as three women, including one with her baby, escape from prison.

Directors: Elmo Williams, Bert Glazer | Stars: Beverly Michaels, Joan Rice, Thora Hird, Avril Angers

Votes: 87

26. Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915)

65 min | Crime, Drama

After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.

Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Robert Warwick, Robert Cummings, Alec B. Francis, Frederick Truesdell

Votes: 282

27. The Reckoning (1932)

63 min | Crime, Drama

Two young lovers caught up in the underworld decide to get out and go straight, but a gang leader has other plans for them.

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Sally Blane, James Murray, Edmund Breese, Bryant Washburn

Votes: 68

28. The Bruvs (2017– )

Animation, Comedy

Features the misadventures of a family of East End characters, led by brothers Doug and Den, who find it hard to leave their old ways behind as they make a new life in Essex.

29. Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1973)
Episode: Return to Devil's Hole (1971)

TV-PG | 50 min | Western

A lovely lady hires Hannibal to help her find her husband who joined the Devil's Hole Gang to escape an errant murder change. At least that's her story, or rather one of her stories. Her ... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Kessler | Stars: Pete Duel, Ben Murphy, Fernando Lamas, Diana Hyland

Votes: 96

30. Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952–1954)
Episode: Something for an Empty Briefcase (1953)

Drama

Joe wants a different future than one as a petty hoodlum and when he attempts to rob an aspiring dancer Noli, he glimpses the possibilities. He imagines purchasing a briefcase as a start but his crime partner is reluctant to let him go.

Director: Don Medford | Stars: Susan Douglas Rubes, James Dean, Don Hanmer, Robert Middleton

Votes: 113

31. Celebrity Playhouse (1955–1956)
Episode: Silver Saddle (1955)

30 min | Drama

An outlaw, recently released from the penitentiary, discovers his wife has divorced him and married a former member of his gang who is now going straight.

Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Mark Stevens, Jaclynne Greene, Robert Osterloh, William Bryant

32. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961)
Episode: Miss Sadie (1960)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

The wife of a wounded outlaw takes him to Tombstone for medical attention as he has decided to go straight. Earp learns who he is but doesn't trust him when a member of his gang is caught casing out one of the two Tombstone banks.

Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Damian O'Flynn, Alan Baxter, Susan Cummings

Votes: 42

33. Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode: The Guilty Men (1960)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A mobster tries to get his syndicate out of the narcotics business, but his mouthpiece lawyer half-unwittingly betrays him to a rival.

Director: Jules Bricken | Stars: Boris Karloff, Everett Sloane, Jay C. Flippen, Frank Silvera

Votes: 186

34. Home Movies (1999–2004)
Episode: Time to Pay the Price (2002)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Brendon, Jason and Melissa get in BIG trouble at school and are forced to attend a "scared straight" program at the local prison. Paula stumbles across a huge pile of the kids' old movies ... See full summary »

Director: Loren Bouchard | Stars: Brendon Small, H. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky, Janine Ditullio

Votes: 96

35. Family Guy (1999– )
Episode: Family Gay (2009)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Peter becomes temporarily gay after participating in a medical study.

Directors: Brian Iles, James Purdum, Peter Shin | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis

Votes: 1,926

36. The Book of Boba Fett (2021–2022)
Episode: Chapter 7: In the Name of Honor (2022)

TV-14 | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Boba Fett and Fennec Shand face an escalating conflict.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Temuera Morrison, Ming-Na Wen, Pedro Pascal, Sophie Thatcher

Votes: 18,785