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10 Best Movies Like Angels with Dirty Faces

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

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#1
The Cocoanuts

The Cocoanuts

1929★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Angels with Dirty Faces for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery....

#2
The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

1939★ 7.5

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

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddi...

#3
13 Rue Madeleine

13 Rue Madeleine

1947★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Angels with Dirty Faces for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good...

#4
Baby Doll

Baby Doll

1956★ 7.0

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

Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awa...

#5
Dinner Rush

Dinner Rush

2000★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Angels with Dirty Faces for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

One unlucky evening, Louis Cropa, a part-time bookmaker, discovers that his restaurant has become a hotbed of conflicting characters. In addition to having to please a whiny food c...

#6
Children of the Damned

Children of the Damned

1964★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Angels with Dirty Faces for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other....