Movies Like A Sporting Chance

If you liked A Sporting Chance (1919), a mystery and drama movie directed by Henry King, 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
Short Cuts (1993)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and comedy
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a…
2
After Hours (1985)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.
3
Deathtrap (1982)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery and comedy
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
4
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
5
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and drama
The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.
6
Barton Fink (1991)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
7
Shock Corridor (1963)
★ 7/10Also drama and mystery
With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
8
Corner Office (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and mystery
In this office satire, Orson, a straight-laced employee, retreats to a blissfully empty corner office to get away from his lackluster colleagues. But why does this seem to upset them so much?
9
The Player (1992)
★ 7.2/10Also mystery and drama
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
10
The King of Comedy (1982)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and comedy
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
11
The Truman Show (1998)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy and drama
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
12
Party Monster (2003)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and drama
The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid…
13
The Last Word (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.
14
The Eternal Daughter (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
15
Barney's Version (2010)
★ 7/10Also comedy and drama
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
16
Pacific Heights (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
17
The Number 23 (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and drama
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
18
Bottle Rocket (1996)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an…
19
Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and drama
As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.
20
The Honey Pot (1967)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and mystery
In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy exes into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.