
10 Best Movies Like Hard Times
If you loved Hard Times, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Big Combo
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hard Times for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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....

Knock on Any Door
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hard Times for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court....

Fat City
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hard Times for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of two men, a veteran boxer who is down and out, and a young man who is just starting his life and boxing career. Their fighting careers cross paths as their lives and fo...

Resurrecting the Champ
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hard Times for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to ...

A Streetcar Named Desire
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hard Times for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral....

The Seven-Ups
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hard Times for fans of Drama & Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money....