Behind City Lights is a 1945 American crime film directed by John English and written by Richard Weil and Gertrude Walker.

The film stars Lynne Roberts, Peter Cookson, Jerome Cowan, Esther Dale, William Terry and Victor Kilian.

Small-town girl Jean Lowell is about to wed farmer Ben Coleman, but secretly longs for big-city lights and a more exciting life.

She finds the men and goes with them to a nightclub, where Perry makes fun of her small-town ways and, unbeknownst to her, steals a valuable necklace.

A distraught Jean takes a job working at a diner, but regains happiness when Ben turns up and invites her to return where she belongs.