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10 Best Movies Like The Gambler

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

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#1
The Gambler

The Gambler

1974★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gambler 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...

#2
House of Games

House of Games

1987★ 6.8

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

A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men....

#3
Shade

Shade

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gambler for fans of Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-kno...

#4
Red Right Hand

Red Right Hand

2024★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gambler for fans of Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Cash is trying to live a quiet, honest life in a small Appalachian town. When a vicious crime boss forces him back into her services, he soon learns he's capable of anything -- eve...

#5
Blood Ties

Blood Ties

2013★ 6.1

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

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s....

#6
Lucky Number Slevin

Lucky Number Slevin

2006★ 7.5

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

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin...

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