Movies Like Sexton Blake, Gambler
If you liked Sexton Blake, Gambler (1928), a crime movie directed by George A. Cooper, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Belly (1998)
★ 6.4/10Also crimeTommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking…
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Violent Saturday (1955)
★ 6.8/10Also crimeThree men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
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Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also crimeA struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.
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Accident Man (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also crimeMike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
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Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeNothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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The Valachi Papers (1972)
★ 6.5/10Also crimeWhen Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred…
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Each Dawn I Die (1939)
★ 6.9/10Also crimeA corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
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One Mile: Chapter Two (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also crimeFormer special forces operative Danny is forced back onto a remote island when a violent, secretive community takes revenge by abducting his daughter Alex, launching a relentless hunt against enemies prepared for his…
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Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)
★ 5.8/10Also crimeIn Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the…
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Empire (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeBig time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top…
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Panic (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also crimeAlex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful…
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Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also crimeThe story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
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In Too Deep (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also crimeDrug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an…
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Reasonable Doubt (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also crimeWhen up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the…
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Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also crimeWalker investigates a murder connected with a missing government weapon. In addition, he tries to track down a teen on the run from a crime syndicate.
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The Unforgivable (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also crimeA woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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Blue Story (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also crimeBlue Story is a tragic tale of a friendship between Timmy and Marco, two young boys from opposing postcodes. Timmy, a shy, smart, naive and timid young boy from Deptford, goes to school in Peckham where he strikes up a…
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No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)
★ 6.8/10Also crimeTwo feuding brothers of differing political views, one a policeman, the other a martial artist, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent who was brutally murdered by the mafia.
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The Outfit (1973)
★ 6.7/10Also crimeA two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed…
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Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
★ 6.5/10Also crimeNewspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.