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Movies Like The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

If you liked The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1980), a drama movie directed by Péter Bacsó, 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. 1Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

  2. 2The Girl and the Spider

    The Girl and the Spider (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Lisa is moving. Upheaval all around: Her mother flirts with a handyman. An eccentric woman seems to be preparing for a glamorous event, a family next door returns from vacation, and a girl documents the adventurous…

  3. 3Mexicali

    Mexicali (2026)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.

  4. 4Pimp

    Pimp (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…

  5. 5El padrino: The Latin Godfather

    El padrino: The Latin Godfather (2004)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper…

  6. 6Blindfire

    Blindfire (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the…

  7. 7Walking Tall: Lone Justice

    Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    In 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…

  8. 8Heart of Glass

    Heart of Glass (1976)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the…

  9. 9Paradise: Faith

    Paradise: Faith (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers…

  10. 10Mammal

    Mammal (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…

  11. 11The Born Losers

    The Born Losers (1967)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A biker gang incites a reign of terror in a California coastal town that culminates in four teenage girls being raped. Vietnam veteran Billy Jack has had enough, however, and takes on the depraved bikers…

  12. 12Convict

    Convict (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the…

  13. 13Stuart: A Life Backwards

    Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.

  14. 14Ill Manors

    Ill Manors (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.

  15. 15Fanny Lye Deliver'd

    Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have…

  16. 16Luckiest Girl Alive

    Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

  17. 17Rise of the Footsoldier 3

    Rise of the Footsoldier 3 (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In the late 1980s, Pat Tate journeys from peddling pills in Marbella to his time in prison, where he solidifies his power before his release to reclaim his turf.

  18. 18Cheaters

    Cheaters (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

  19. 19No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers

    No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Two 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.

  20. 20Jawbone

    Jawbone (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…

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