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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 Son

The Son

2002★ 7.5

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

A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets....

#2
Queen of the Desert

Queen of the Desert

2015★ 5.9

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

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn...

#3
Desirable Teacher

Desirable Teacher

1981★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gangster for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In a school where the meeting seems more complete sampling of teachers and professors stupid airhead, there is the class of Peter, repeating in life, which is the "grandfather" to ...

#4
Stand by for Action

Stand by for Action

1942★ 6.8

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

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his yacht. He climbs swiftly in rank, ...

#5
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#6
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...