MOVIEPAD
Search icon

Movies Like Money Kings

If you liked Money Kings (1998), a drama movie directed by Graham Theakston, 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. 1Rounders

    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'…

  2. 2Hardball

    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.

  3. 3Casino

    Casino (1995)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    In Las Vegas, two best friends-a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

  4. 4Hard Eight

    Hard Eight (1997)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

  5. 5Hoodlum

    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…

  6. 6The Set-Up

    The Set-Up (1949)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

  7. 7Bugsy

    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…

  8. 8Jungleland

    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.

  9. 9Night and the City

    Night and the City (1950)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

  10. 10Molly's Game

    Molly's Game (2017)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

  11. 11Croupier

    Croupier (1998)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked…

  12. 12Lucky Number Slevin

    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…

  13. 13American Hustle

    American Hustle (2013)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.

  14. 14Pimp

    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…

  15. 15Fast Girls

    Fast Girls (2012)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

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

  16. 16The Gambler

    The Gambler (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he…

  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. 18Gotti

    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…

  19. 19Angels with Dirty Faces

    Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

    ★ 7.5/10Also 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.

  20. 20Wall Street

    Wall Street (1987)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, who takes the youth under his wing.

← Back to Money Kings