
Movies that feel like The Roaring Twenties (1939)
If you loved The Roaring Twenties, the closest films we have are White Heat (1949), High Sierra (1941) and The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973). All three share The Roaring Twenties' gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.
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If The Roaring Twenties hit the spot, these will too

Raoul Walsh working the same nerve twice

Raoul Walsh directing both, with the same fingerprints on each
The difference: Leans harder into action than The Roaring Twenties does

Common ground: gangster
The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

The same mix in both: grit, then stillness

Both lean on tension more than on crime

Both are built on the same subject: gangster

Both keep coming back to the same thing: prohibition era

Thriller built on grit, twice over
The difference: Missing the stillness of The Roaring Twenties

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The same preoccupation in both: prohibition era

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Gritty drama in both cases
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