Movies Like The Hustler
If you liked The Hustler (1961), a drama and romance movie directed by Robert Rossen, 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.
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Croupier (1998)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaJack 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…
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21 (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaBen 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…
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Atlantic City (1980)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceIn a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
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Owning Mahowny (2003)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaDan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To…
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The Way Back (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction, attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school…
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The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaWhen 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…
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Cassandra's Dream (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaThe tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.
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The Prestige (2006)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaA mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceNick Carraway arrives in New York in 1922, an era of loose morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick encounters the mysterious millionaire Gatsby and his bewitching cousin Daisy…
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The Swimmer (1968)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.
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Written on the Wind (1956)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceMitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his…
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Scarlet Street (1945)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaCashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find…
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Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceAfter a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in…
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Pump Up the Volume (1990)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaMark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for a teen committing suicide, the students clash with high school…
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The Natural (1984)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAn unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
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The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
★ 7/10Also dramaAn up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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Safe Haven (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also romanceA young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
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Moulin Rouge! (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceA celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge…
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While the City Sleeps (1956)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaNewspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
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Queen of Katwe (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.