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10 Best Movies Like Playing Cards

If you loved Playing Cards, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Six: Inside

Six: Inside

2009★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Cards for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animati...

#2
The Way to the Heart

The Way to the Heart

2024★ 9.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Cards for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Ava, an award-winning chef at a big-city restaurant, has lost her spark. Her boss sends her out to find herself to save her menu and her job. She returns home and finds little to i...

#3
Johan Falk: The Outlaws

Johan Falk: The Outlaws

2009★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Cards for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander...

#4
Object: Alimony

Object: Alimony

1928★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Cards for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Ruth Butler, a clerk in an emporium, marries Jimmy Rutledge and thereby greatly displeases his mother, the owner of the emporium, because of Ruth's lowly origins. Renaud Graham, on...

#5
Six Weeks to Twelve Years

Six Weeks to Twelve Years

2020★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Cards for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After the death of their abusive father, two estranged twin brothers must reunite and sell off his property....

#6
Invisible Lines

Invisible Lines

2010★ 9.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing Cards for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A terrible film about a shockingly sad story. The honour killing of a 26 year old gay man by his father. Wendel's writing is banal and lifeless, his direction is no better. A yo...