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Movies that feel like Gun Crazy (1950)

If you loved Gun Crazy, the closest films we have are The Big Combo (1955), Breathless (1960) and The Set-Up (1949). All three share Gun Crazy's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, Fandor Amazon Channel and FlixFling and others, checked against today's data.

Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After upsetting the carnival owner who lusts after Starr, they both get fired. Soon, on Starr's behest, they embark on a crime spree for cash.

πŸ… 91% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Joseph H. Lewisgrittyromantictendercontemplativedreadatmospheric
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The Big Combo
1955 Β· dir. Joseph H. Lewis
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.3drama Β· crime

Joseph H. Lewis directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the romance that defines Gun Crazy

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.

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Breathless
1960 Β· dir. Jean-Luc Godard
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.6drama Β· crime Β· romance

Gun sits at the heart of each

The difference: Missing the dread of Gun Crazy

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

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The Set-Up
1949 Β· dir. Robert Wise
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.8drama Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: film noir

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

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Force of Evil
1950 Β· dir. Abraham Polonsky
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.2crime Β· drama

Both keep circling back to film noir

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.

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365 Days
2020 Β· dir. Barbara BiaΕ‚owΔ…s
β˜… 3.3romance Β· drama Β· crime

Gritty where it counts, romantic underneath

The difference: 70 years apart, and the 2020s show

A woman falls victim to a dominant mafia boss, who imprisons her and gives her one year to fall in love with him.

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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 Β· dir. Max OphΓΌls
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

The same mix in both: tenderness, then stillness

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

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The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 Β· dir. Max OphΓΌls
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.

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Marty
1955 Β· dir. Delbert Mann
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Both trade on tenderness more than on being drama

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.

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Journey to Italy
1954 Β· dir. Roberto Rossellini
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.3drama Β· romance

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

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Brief Encounter
1945 Β· dir. David Lean
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8drama Β· romance

Romantic romance in both cases

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

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The Asphalt Jungle
1950 Β· dir. John Huston
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.8crime Β· drama

Crime built on atmosphere, twice over

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

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Splendor in the Grass
1961 Β· dir. Elia Kazan
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

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