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10 Best Movies Like Be Cool

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

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#1
King Creole

King Creole

1958★ 6.4

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

Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the loc...

#2
The Cotton Club

The Cotton Club

1984★ 6.5

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

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide....

#3
Johnny Dangerously

Johnny Dangerously

1984★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Be Cool for fans of Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills....

#4
Little Odessa

Little Odessa

1994★ 6.4

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

Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Jo...

#5
Rob the Mob

Rob the Mob

2014★ 6.1

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

The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they e...

#6
Hoodlum

Hoodlum

1997★ 6.4

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

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bump...

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