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Movies that feel like Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

If you loved Odds Against Tomorrow, the closest films we have are Jackie Brown (1997), Sexy Beast (2001) and Blast of Silence (1961). All three share Odds Against Tomorrow's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Wisegrittycontemplativetenseplayfulatmospheric

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) · A Better Tomorrow (1986) · The Day After Tomorrow (2004) · Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

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Jackie Brown
1997 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 88%7.5crime · drama · thriller

Both keep circling back to heist

The difference: A 1990s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

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Sexy Beast
2001 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 87%7.3crime · thriller · drama

Heist is the engine of both

Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.

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Blast of Silence
1961 · dir. Allen Baron
🍅 83%7.4crime · drama · thriller

Both built around film noir

The difference: None of the play that defines Odds Against Tomorrow

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.

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Shoot the Piano Player
1960 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 90%7.4drama · thriller · crime

Gritty where it counts, contemplative underneath

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

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The Killing
1956 · dir. Stanley Kubrick
🍅 96%7.9crime · thriller · drama

Robbery sits at the heart of each

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

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Touch of Evil
1958 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 96%8crime · thriller · drama

The same preoccupation in both: film noir

A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.

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Odd Man Out
1947 · dir. Carol Reed
🍅 100%7.6crime · drama · thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then atmosphere

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

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Le Doulos
1962 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 96%7.7drama · thriller · crime

Gritty crime in both cases

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?

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Le Cercle Rouge
1970 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 96%7.9crime · drama · thriller

Both trade on play more than on being drama

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.

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Le Samouraï
1967 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 92%8crime · thriller · drama

Thriller built on stillness, twice over

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

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The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · dir. John Huston
🍅 98%7.8crime · drama

Crime with a pulse of play, in both cases

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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Night Moves
1975 · dir. Arthur Penn
🍅 78%7.1thriller · crime · drama

Tense drama, and it commits to that

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

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