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Movies that feel like The Big Risk (1960)

If you loved The Big Risk, the closest films we have are Kansas City Confidential (1952), The Big Combo (1955) and The Narrow Margin (1952). All three share The Big Risk's gritty and atmospheric feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV and MGM+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with his family.

πŸ… 100% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Claude Sautetgrittyatmospheric

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Kansas City Confidential
1952 Β· dir. Phil Karlson
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.3crime

Both land grit and atmosphere at once

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

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The Big Combo
1955 Β· dir. Joseph H. Lewis
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.3drama Β· crime

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Plays it as drama more than The Big Risk does

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

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The Narrow Margin
1952 Β· dir. Richard Fleischer
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6thriller Β· crime

Crime built on atmosphere, twice over

The difference: Leans thriller where The Big Risk does not

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.

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Criss Cross
1949 Β· dir. Robert Siodmak
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.4crime Β· thriller

Both trade on grit more than on being crime

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

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Force of Evil
1950 Β· dir. Abraham Polonsky
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.2crime Β· drama

Both run atmospheric where it counts

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.

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The Big Clock
1948 Β· dir. John Farrow
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6crime Β· thriller

The same crime instincts

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.

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The Set-Up
1949 Β· dir. Robert Wise
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.8drama Β· crime

Both are crime through and through

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

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Out of the Past
1947 Β· dir. Jacques Tourneur
πŸ… 87%β˜… 8crime Β· thriller

Cut from the same crime cloth

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

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Body Heat
1981 Β· dir. Lawrence Kasdan
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.4thriller Β· crime

Crime approached the same way

The difference: A 1980s film, from a different era of filmmaking

During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.

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Animal Kingdom
2010 Β· dir. David MichΓ΄d
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.2crime Β· drama

The same crime instincts

Joshua β€œJ” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.

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Shoot the Piano Player
1960 Β· dir. FranΓ§ois Truffaut
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.4drama Β· thriller Β· crime

French noir sits at the heart of each

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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Le Doulos
1962 Β· dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: french noir

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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