Movies Like Fever Pitch
If you liked Fever Pitch (1985), a drama movie directed by Richard Brooks, 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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Hard Eight (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
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The Air I Breathe (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaA 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…
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Rounders (1998)
★ 7/10Also dramaPoker 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'…
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Ballad of a Small Player (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaAmid the glittering casinos of Macau, a gambler running from his past—and his debts—becomes fascinated by an enigmatic woman at the baccarat table.
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The Gambler (1974)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaNew York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
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Casino (1995)
★ 8/10Also dramaIn Las Vegas, two best friends-a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
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Bugsy (1991)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaNew York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies…
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The Killing (1956)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaCareer 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…
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Factotum (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaThis drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is…
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Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaSlevin 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…
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The Gambler (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaLiterature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he…
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The Card Counter (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaWilliam Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military…
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Molly's Game (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaMolly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
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True Crime (1999)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaBoozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly…
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The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
★ 7/10Also dramaA 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.
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House of Games (1987)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA 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.
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Fierce People (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaA massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.
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A Bronx Tale (1993)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaSet in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction…
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Where the Truth Lies (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAn ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
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Dead Man's Wire (2026)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaIn 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.