
Movies that feel likeMean Streets (1973)
If you loved Mean Streets, the closest films we have are Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Casino (1995) and Pierrot le Fou (1965). All three share Mean Streets' contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is As Tears Go By (1988).
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If Mean Streets hit the spot, these will too

One thread runs through both: gangster

Martin Scorsese working the same nerve twice
The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Mean Streets does

The same preoccupation in both: money
The difference: Sits closer to romance than Mean Streets does

Contemplative where it counts, gritty underneath

Both are built on the same subject: gangster

Romantic drama in both cases
The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1990s show

Both lean on stillness more than on crime

Martin Scorsese directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Drama built on grit, twice over

Romantic crime, and it commits to that
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Contemplative drama in both cases
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