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10 Best Movies Like A Bad Debt

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

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#1
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

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 gettin...

#2
Life Without Principle

Life Without Principle

2011★ 6.6

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

A criminal, a bank clerk and a police officer find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank in the midst of the wo...

#3
The Gambler

The Gambler

2014★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Bad Debt for fans of Drama. 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...

#4
Jungleland

Jungleland

2020★ 6.4

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

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 th...

#5
Rob-B-Hood

Rob-B-Hood

2006★ 7.0

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

For never-do-well compulsive gambler Fong, there's only one thing more fearsome than debtors at his doorstep - having to coax a crying baby. But what if the baby becomes his golden...

#6
Sky

Sky

2015★ 6.2

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

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband....

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