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10 Best Movies Like The Avenue

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

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#1
Rounders

Rounders

1998★ 7.0

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

Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he me...

#2
True Believer

True Believer

1989★ 6.2

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

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases a...

#3
Winged Creatures

Winged Creatures

2009★ 5.9

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

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts h...

#4
The Gambler

The Gambler

1974★ 6.7

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

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destr...

#5
Casino

Casino

1995★ 8.0

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

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite....

#6
Killing Them Softly

Killing Them Softly

2012★ 6.0

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

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse....

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