
Movies that feel like Straight Time (1978)
If you loved Straight Time, the closest films we have are Blue Collar (1978), The Godfather Part II (1974) and GoodFellas (1990). All three share Straight Time'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 fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium and Paramount Plus Essential and others, checked against today's data.
If Straight Time hit the spot, these will too

The same preoccupation in both: robbery

Both land grit and stillness at once

Prison is the engine of both

Prison sits at the heart of each

Murder runs into drugs in each of them
The difference: A 2000s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Drama built on stillness, twice over
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Both trade on grit more than on being crime

Contemplative drama in both cases

Cut from the same crime cloth

Both keep circling back to robbery

Both built around murder
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