
Movies that feel likeScarface (1983)
If you loved Scarface, the closest films we have are Batman Begins (2005), Léon: The Professional (1994) and Cool Hand Luke (1967). All three share Scarface's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Charley Varrick (1973).
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If Scarface hit the spot, these will too

Grief-forged reinvention set loose in a city rotten to the core
The difference: Moral where Tony is monstrous — restraint instead of appetite

Street-level crime with a strange tenderness underneath the violence
The difference: Small and intimate — one apartment's worth of world, not an empire

A defiant man the system tries and fails to break
The difference: A prison farm, not a penthouse — rebellion without riches

Loud, violent 1980s pulp with a grudge burning underneath it
The difference: Buddy-comedy warmth and clean good guys — no descent to watch

A professional's dream of a clean life the underworld won't allow
The difference: Cool restraint over excess — one score, not an empire

Gritty and contemplative in the same breath
The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Scarface does


Professionals at the top of a criminal game, and the cost of staying there
The difference: Cool, disciplined and procedural — no operatic self-destruction

One thread runs through both: grief
The difference: Sits closer to documentary than Scarface does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mafia


Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair
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