Movies like Ruby
If Ruby's mix of corruption, striptease and nightclub stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Ruby's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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SuperFly
2018 · Directed by Director X. · 107 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: corruption, nightclub · Also action and crime
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
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The Cotton Club
1984 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 130 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: nightclub, mafia · Also crime and drama
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
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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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The Godfather Part II
1974 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 202 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: 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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GoodFellas
1990 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 145 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: 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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Léon: The Professional
1994 · Directed by Luc Besson · 111 min8.3
Why you'll like itWith Danny Aiello · Shares: corruption · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda.
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The Departed
2006 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 151 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: organized crime, mafia · Also drama and thriller
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise.
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Donnie Brasco
1997 · Directed by Mike Newell · 127 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: mafia · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
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The Public Enemy
1931 · Directed by William A. Wellman · 84 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: organized crime · Also crime and drama
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers.
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Payback
1999 · Directed by Brian Helgeland · 100 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: organized crime · Also action and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think.