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Movies Like Da Game of Life

If you liked Da Game of Life (1998), a drama movie directed by Michael Martin, 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. 1Belly

    Belly (1998)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Tommy 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…

  2. 2Al Capone

    Al Capone (1959)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder…

  3. 3Hoodlum

    Hoodlum (1997)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and…

  4. 4Each Dawn I Die

    Each Dawn I Die (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A 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.

  5. 5Pimp

    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…

  6. 6Juice

    Juice (1992)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different…

  7. 7Beast

    Beast (2026)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal…

  8. 8Imperial Dreams

    Imperial Dreams (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.

  9. 9I.D.

    I.D. (1995)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .

  10. 10Run

    Run (1991)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.

  11. 11The Valachi Papers

    The Valachi Papers (1972)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    When 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…

  12. 12Little Caesar

    Little Caesar (1931)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

  13. 13Jungleland

    Jungleland (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.

  14. 14Mobsters

    Mobsters (1991)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...

  15. 15Cass

    Cass (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.

  16. 16Blood Ties

    Blood Ties (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

  17. 17Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius

    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.

  18. 18Kid Galahad

    Kid Galahad (1962)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.

  19. 19Fast Girls

    Fast Girls (2012)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

  20. 20Gotti

    Gotti (1996)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion…

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