Movies Like The Luckiest Guy in the World

If you liked The Luckiest Guy in the World (1947), a crime and drama movie directed by Joseph M. Newman, 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.

1
The Air I Breathe (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and crime
A gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race against time to rescue his beloved... Four interconnected stories reveal life unfolding…
2
The Phenix City Story (1955)
★ 6.5/10Also crime
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
3
SuperFly (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also crime
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
4
Greed (1924)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and crime
When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.
5
Hard Eight (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
6
The Laundromat (2019)
★ 6/10Also crime and drama
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.
7
Johnny Eager (1941)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.
8
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
★ 7/10Also drama and crime
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
9
5 Against the House (1955)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and drama
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
10
Heist 88 (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and drama
A criminal mastermind recruits a group of young bank employees to steal 80 million dollars in one of the largest bank heist in US history.
11
Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and crime
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to…
12
The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
★ 7/10Also crime and drama
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
13
The Set-Up (1949)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and crime
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
14
The Killing (1956)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and drama
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George…
15
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and crime
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation…
16
Rounders (1998)
★ 7/10Also drama and crime
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm'…
17
Collision (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also crime and drama
Over the course of one fateful day, a corrupt businessman and his socialite wife race to save their daughter from a notorious crime lord.
18
Johnny O'Clock (1947)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature…
19
House of Games (1987)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
20
In Cold Blood (1967)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.