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10 Best Movies Like The Gangster

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

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#1
The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950★ 7.0

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

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

#2
They Live by Night

They Live by Night

1949★ 6.9

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

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning....

#3
The Big Combo

The Big Combo

1955★ 7.0

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

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend....

#4
Party Girl

Party Girl

1958★ 6.8

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

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life t...

#5
Cry of the City

Cry of the City

1948★ 6.7

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

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another cri...

#6
The Web

The Web

1947★ 7.1

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

A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his hea...

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