Movies Like Sucker List

If you liked Sucker List (1941), a crime and drama movie directed by Roy Rowland, 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 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…
2
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…
3
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.
4
Force of Evil (1950)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and drama
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring…
5
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'…
6
Plunder Road (1957)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and drama
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
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
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.
9
The Grifters (1990)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
10
Above the Rim (1994)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.
11
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.
12
The Wrong Man (1956)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
13
Deadfall (2012)
★ 6/10Also crime and drama
A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration.
14
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
★ 7/10Also crime
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
15
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
16
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
★ 7.5/10Also crime and drama
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
17
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.
18
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama
Gang leader Tony pulls off a major diamond heist with his crew, but cop-turned-criminal Ling knows who has the loot and responds by kidnapping Tony's daughter and holding her for ransom. Unfortunately, Tony's lost the…
19
Emily the Criminal (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama
Desperate for income, Emily takes a shady gig buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a charismatic middleman named Youcef. Seduced by the quick cash and illicit thrills, they hatch a plan to take their…
20
Salvable (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
When a battered boxer past his prime finds his dreams and his relationships on the ropes, he falls back in with a dangerous crowd and has to take the biggest swing of his life to reclaim his hope and his family.