Movies like Casino
If Casino's mix of drug abuse, casino and poker stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Casino's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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GoodFellas
1990 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 145 min8.4
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci · Shares: 1970s, organized crime, mafia · Also drama and crime · From the same decade (1990s)
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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A Bronx Tale
1993 · Directed by Robert De Niro · 121 min7.9
Why you'll like itWith Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci · Shares: italian american, gambling, mafia · Also drama and crime · From the same decade (1990s)
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.
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Taxi Driver
1976 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 114 min8.1
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro · Shares: 1970s, pimp · Also crime and drama
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
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The Godfather Part II
1974 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 202 min8.6
Why you'll like itWith Robert De Niro · Shares: italian american, organized crime, mafia · Also drama and crime
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and…
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Once Upon a Time in America
1984 · Directed by Sergio Leone · 139 min8.4
Why you'll like itWith Robert De Niro and James Woods · Shares: jewish american · Also drama and crime
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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American Gangster
2007 · Directed by Ridley Scott · 157 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: rise and fall, organized crime, suspenseful · Also drama and crime
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being…
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Molly's Game
2017 · Directed by Aaron Sorkin · 141 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: poker, gambling, fbi · Also drama and crime
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
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Rounders
1998 · Directed by John Dahl · 121 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: casino, poker, gambling · Also drama and crime · From the same decade (1990s)
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB.
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Hard Eight
1997 · Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · 102 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: casino, gambling, las vegas · Also drama and crime · From the same decade (1990s)
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
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Bugsy
1991 · Directed by Barry Levinson · 136 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: casino, money, mafia · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A.
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The Godfather
1972 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 175 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: organized crime, mafia · Also drama and crime
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son,…
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Carlito's Way
1993 · Directed by Brian De Palma · 144 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: 1970s, cocaine · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.