
Movies that feel like The Sting (1973)
If you loved The Sting, the closest films we have are Mafioso (1962), Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) and Bottle Rocket (1996). All three share The Sting's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.
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If The Sting hit the spot, these will too

Both land wit and play at once

Both keep coming back to the same thing: heist
The difference: None of the stillness The Sting is built on

The same preoccupation in both: heist
The difference: 23 years apart, and the 1990s show

Common ground: chicago, illinois

Comedy built on grit, twice over
The difference: Leans harder into western than The Sting does

Both are built on the same subject: caper
The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Sting does

Witty crime, and it commits to that

Playful drama in both cases

George Roy Hill directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Comedy with a pulse of grit, in both cases
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Both lean on stillness more than on crime

One thread runs through both: horse race
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