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10 Best Movies Like American Hustle

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

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#1
Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can

2002★ 8.0

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

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI...

#2
Donnie Brasco

Donnie Brasco

1997★ 7.5

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

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one....

#3
Six Degrees of Separation

Six Degrees of Separation

1993★ 6.4

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

The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family....

#4
Love and Bullets

Love and Bullets

1979★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Hustle for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that sh...

#5
Above Suspicion

Above Suspicion

2019★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Hustle for fans of Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local ...

#6
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

2013★ 8.0

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

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belf...

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