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Movies that feel likeMolly's Game (2017)

Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

If you loved Molly's Game, the closest films we have are A Touch of Sin (2013), Amanda Knox (2016) and Leviathan (2014). All three share Molly's Game's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Black Souls (2014).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Aaron Sorkincontemplativegritty
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A Touch of Sin
2013 · dir. Jia Zhangke
🍅 95%★ 7.1crime · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village. A migrant discovers the possibilities of owning a firearm. A receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one job to the next.

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Amanda Knox
2016 · dir. Rod Blackhurst
🍅 82%★ 6.9documentary · crimeNetflix

One thread runs through both: trial

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than Molly's Game does

This gripping, atmospheric documentary recounts the infamous trial, conviction and eventual acquittal of Seattle native Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of a British exchange student in Italy.

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Leviathan
2014 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
🍅 97%★ 7.6drama · crime

Both land stillness and grit at once

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

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Freedom Writers
2007 · dir. Richard LaGravenese
🍅 69%★ 7.6crime · drama

Both are built on the same subject: biography

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

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The Drop
2014 · dir. Michaël R. Roskam
🍅 88%★ 7drama · crime

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.

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7 Prisoners
2021 · dir. Alexandre Moratto
🍅 98%★ 7.1drama · crimeNetflix

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.

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🍅 54%★ 6.7drama · crimeNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: biography

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

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Loving Pablo
2017 · dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
🍅 33%★ 6.4crime · drama

Common ground: a true story

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

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Black Souls
2014 · dir. Francesco Munzi
🍅 89%★ 6.8crime · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A former narcotics smuggler, now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills, is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son.

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Blow
2001 · dir. Ted Demme
🍅 56%★ 7.5crime · drama

Crime built on grit, twice over

The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.

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Casino
1995 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 79%★ 8.2crime · dramaPrime Video

Both are working the same pair: poker, gambling

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1990s show

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

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R
2010 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 91%★ 7.1crime · drama

Drama of the same temperament

Imprisoned for violent assault, Rune is placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations.

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