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10 Best Movies Like 21

If you loved 21, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Rounders

Rounders

1998★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 me...

#2
The Gambler

The Gambler

2014★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 c...

#3
The Cooler

The Cooler

2003★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, i...

#4
Hard Eight

Hard Eight

1997★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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

#5
Atlantic City

Atlantic City

1980★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 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....

#6
A Serious Man

A Serious Man

2009★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with o...

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