Movies Like Dangerous Years

If you liked Dangerous Years (1947), a drama movie directed by Arthur Pierson, 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
21 (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also drama
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000…
2
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)
★ 7/10Also drama
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.
3
A Bronx Tale (1993)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
Set 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…
4
Rounders (1998)
★ 7/10Also drama
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'…
5
Hard Eight (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
6
Monster (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, Aileen's limited education lands her back on the corner. She's raped by a…
7
I'm Your Woman (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also drama
A woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.
8
Hardball (2001)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.
9
Nightmare Alley (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
10
Sweet Virginia (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also drama
A former rodeo star, now a motel manager, meets a young man who is responsible for the violence that suddenly has seized his small town.
11
The Card Counter (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also drama
William 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…
12
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his…
13
The Man Without a Face (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated--and for which he was convicted of…
14
Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
Slevin 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…
15
Acts of Vengeance (2017)
★ 6/10Also drama
A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.
16
The United States of Leland (2003)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl…
17
The Dead Girl (2006)
★ 6/10Also drama
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.
18
Dinner Rush (2000)
★ 7/10Also drama
One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to having to please a whiny food critic, Louis must fend off a hostile…
19
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
20
Bugsy (1991)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
New 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…