20 movies like 21, ordered by similarity : Redirected(2014), A Small Circle of Friends(1980), American Animals(2018), Ocean's Eleven(2001), Manhattan Melodrama(1934), Owning Mahowny(2003), The Sea Wolf(1941), People Will Talk(1951), The Man on the Train(2002), Half Nelson(2006), Parched(2015), Papillon(2017) ...
Drama
USA
2008
122 Minutes
Jim Sturgess Kevin Spacey Kate Bosworth Aaron Yoo Liza Lapira Jacob Pitts Laurence Fishburne Jack McGee Josh Gad Sam Golzari Helen Carey
professor student young woman mathematician casino owner thrilling engaging incredible las vegas harvard university casino risk scam friendship life lessons interracial relationship intelligence fall escape discovery
"21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.
Action, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|Lithuania
2014
99 Minutes
Vinnie Jones Scot Williams Gil Darnell Oliver Jackson Anthony Strachan Andrius Ziurauskas Vytautas Sapranauskas Artur Smolyaninov
man gangster casino owner criminal mafia boss girlfriend brutal suspenseful thrilling hilarious airy frightening casino airplane lithuania hotel farm airport robbery eruptions
Three friends try to make money and invite another friend in on a plot.
Drama
USA
1980
113 Minutes
Brad Davis Karen Allen Jameson Parker Shelley Long John Friedrich Gary Springer Craig Richard Nelson Harry Caesar Nan Martin Daniel Stern Severn Darden
man woman student friend soldier lover engaging melodramatic emotional harvard university campus massachusetts protest cafeteria relationships vietnam war friendship love triangle romance social activism
Harvard in the 1960's: a time of social upheaval and student unrest. Three students bond together, challenge the system and begin to lose their ideals.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK|USA
2018
116 Minutes
Barry Keoghan Evan Peters Jared Abrahamson Blake Jenner Ann Dowd Udo Kier Gary Basaraba Lara Grice Jane McNeill Wayne Duvall
friend student thief principal parent classmate amusing wild unrestrained outlandish thrilling incredible kentucky university museum school van bar heist friendship
Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
USA
2001
116 Minutes
George Clooney Matt Damon Andy Garcia Brad Pitt Julia Roberts Casey Affleck Scott Caan Don Cheadle Elliott Gould Eddie Jemison Bernie Mac
ex-convict thief con artist gambler ex-wife acrobat amusing thrilling gutsy intricate casino los angeles las vegas hotel heist con game friendship deception love triangle manipulation
Danny Ocean and his ten accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.
Crime, Drama
1934
93 Minutes
Clark Gable William Powell Myrna Loy Leo Carrillo Isabel Jewell Mickey Rooney Nat Pendleton
casino owner politician love interest priest engaging gripping thrilling touching melodramatic new york city casino friendship new love self-sacrifice loyalty political campaign immortality sacrifice rise growing up
A district attorney (William Powell) condemns his boyhood buddy, a racketeer (Clark Gable) whose crime saves his bid for governor.
Drama
Canada|UK
2003
104 Minutes
Philip Seymour Hoffman Minnie Driver Maury Chaykin John Hurt Sonja Smits Ian Tracey Roger Dunn Jason Blicker Chris Collins
bank employee gambler girlfriend casino owner thief friend tense gripping dark emotional atlantic city, n.j. toronto casino bank canada gambling fraud theft addiction deception
A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.
Drama
USA
1941
90 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson John Garfield Ida Lupino Alexander Knox Gene Lockhart Barry Fitzgerald Stanley Ridges David Bruce
fugitive captain writer woman doctor dark gritty gripping ferry ship cabin deck boat insanity seafaring sadism writers blindness escape escape
After being fished out of the sea by a sealer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.
Comedy, Drama
1951
110 Minutes
Cary Grant Jeanne Crain Finlay Currie Walter Slezak Hume Cronyn Sidney Blackmer Basil Ruysdael Katherine Locke
physician student friend professor father dean offbeat quirky striking university hospital small town illegitimate child medicine morality friendship jealousy discovery love sacrifice
A doctor's unconventional theories of medicine and relationship with a young student place his reputation in jeopardy.
Comedy, Drama
2002
90 Minutes
Jean Rochefort Johnny Hallyday Jean-François Stévenin Charlie Nelson Pascal Parmentier Isabelle Petit-Jacques Édith Scob Maurice Chevit
thief friend professor banker retiree witty winsome thrilling engaging bank france small town mansion train chance meeting heist odd couple new job retirement poetry
A prospective bank robber (Johnny Hallyday) and a retired teacher (Jean Rochefort) secretly dream about having each other's lives.
Drama
USA
2006
106 Minutes
Ryan Gosling Shareeka Epps Anthony Mackie Deborah Rush Jay O. Sanders Nicole Vicius Denis O'Hare Monique Gabriela Curnen Starla Benford Tina Holmes Karen Chilton
teacher co-worker student drug addict friend emotional dark middle school brooklyn, n.y. bar locker room drug addiction friendship education dysfunction family discovery fall 2000s
An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.
Drama
India|UK|USA
2015
116 Minutes
Radhika Apte Sayani Gupta Adil Hussain Surveen Chawla Tannishtha Chatterjee Sumeet Vyas Mahesh Balraj Chandan Anand Riddhi Sen Lehar Khan Tanya Sachdeva
young woman indian father mother friend man intense emotional melodramatic inspiring disturbing heartwarming india big city family traditions religious traditions women's rights confrontation friendship love
In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.
Adventure, History, Biography, Drama
USA|Czech Republic|Spain
2017
133 Minutes
Charlie Hunnam Rami Malek Roland Møller Nina Senicar Tommy J. Flanagan Eve Hewson Christopher Fairbank Brian Vernel
convict innocent man prison guard prisoner escape artist friend tense bleak thrilling suspenseful incredible intricate prison island prison cell paris french guiana apartment prison prison break
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
Drama
USA
1949
112 Minutes
Clark Gable Alexis Smith Mary Astor Wendell Corey Audrey Totter Lewis Stone Marjorie Rambeau Frank Morgan Barry Sullivan Edgar Buchanan Leon Ames
casino owner wife son sister-in-law husband gambler engaging tense tender cool casino family home country club work vs. family gambling family feud scam disease robbery transformation
Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son.
Crime, Drama
UK
1960
98 Minutes
Stanley Baker John Crawford Donald Pleasence Billie Whitelaw
inspector escaped convict murderer detective gang leader criminal gripping thrilling suspenseful tense intense engaging manchester, england jailbreak on the run mission criminals murder investigation money discovery
In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
USA
2007
122 Minutes
George Clooney Brad Pitt Matt Damon Andy Garcia Al Pacino Ellen Barkin Don Cheadle Bernie Mac Casey Affleck Scott Caan Eddie Jemison
con artist thief mastermind wife celebrity rival witty amusing thrilling playful suspenseful casino las vegas mexico big city hotel friendship con game diamond seduction
Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist after casino owner Willy Bank double-crosses one of the original eleven, Reuben Tishkoff.
Drama
Canada|Japan
2005
110 Minutes
Matthew Smiley Tatsuya Fuji Kazuko Yoshiyuki Lisle Wilkerson Naho Watanabe Chris Heyerdahl
uncle mother suicidal person young woman love interest student engaging touching melodramatic japan house canada countryside suicide attempt depression unusual friendship bereavement family relationships discovery
Ken, a 23-year-old, is devastated at the death of his father. He decides to commit suicide by jumping into the near-freezing river, but somehow miraculously survived. His mother thinks that... See full summary »
Adventure, Drama
Germany
2000
106 Minutes
Ken Duken Regula Grauwiller Gregor Torzs Max Herbrechter Frank Giering Erhan Emre Alexander Hörbe Antje Westermann Gerhard Garbers Monika Hackermann Rainer Werner
mountain climber doctor friend adventurer disabled person man intense touching inspiring sad emotional positive mountain hospital village accident mountain climbing paralysis living with disability depression
Three jailers, a wheelchaired man and a mentally handicapped girl climb a mountain in the alps along with their supervisors.
Drama
Germany
1929
96 Minutes
Louise Brooks Fritz Rasp Josef Rovenský Sybille Schmitz Valeska Gert Edith Meinhard
young woman chemist assistant mother director friend dark tense profound germany pharmacy apartment reform school brothel mansion rape prostitution father/daughter relationship friendship redemption
After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
Comedy, Drama
2007
109 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Jean-Pierre Darroussin Fanny Cottençon Alexia Barlier
painter gardener artist former classmate man friend amusing heartwarming charming uplifting lighthearted melodramatic france paris rural community countryside garden lake friendship relationships
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
Ireland|UK
2019
86 Minutes
middle-aged man homosexual family married man gripping gritty engaging intense dublin docks ireland discovery homosexuality loss of job loss of hope vulnerability discovery escape fall temptation
Colm, mid-40s has a comfortable life: a managerial job in Dublin's docks, two teenage children, and a kind, loyal wife in Claire. After the death of his father, a destructive figure, Colm's emotional life cracks open, and his downward spiral continues when he is made redundant. Drinking heavily and unable to confide in Claire, Colm finds himself drawn to Jay, a 19-year-old who dabbles in ... See full summary »