Movies like House of Games
House of Games (1987) is a crime movie directed by David Mamet. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
★ 8.0 · 26,721 votes · Crime, Drama, Comedy
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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2. Rounders (1998)
★ 7.0 · 2,014 votes · Drama, Crime
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 meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
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3. Side Effects (2013)
★ 6.6 · 3,423 votes · Thriller, Crime, Drama
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
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4. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
★ 8.0 · 17,711 votes · Drama, Crime
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
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5. Focus (2015)
★ 6.9 · 8,463 votes · Romance, Comedy, Crime
Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.
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6. I Love You Phillip Morris (2010)
★ 6.4 · 1,878 votes · Comedy, Crime, Drama
Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force. That is until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest – even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the State Penitentiary where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible con after another.
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7. The Tinder Swindler (2022)
★ 7.0 · 1,163 votes · Documentary, Crime
Posing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, an Israeli conman wooed women online then conned them out of millions of dollars. Now, some victims plan for payback.
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8. Time Lapse (2014)
★ 6.5 · 1,467 votes · Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
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9. Nightmare Alley (2021)
★ 6.9 · 3,515 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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10. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
★ 8.3 · 18,651 votes · Crime, Thriller, Drama
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
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11. Hard Eight (1997)
★ 6.8 · 1,031 votes · Drama, Crime
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
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12. Casino (1995)
★ 8.0 · 6,801 votes · Crime, Drama
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.
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13. Bugsy (1991)
★ 6.3 · 471 votes · Crime, Drama, Mystery
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
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14. Sexy Beast (2001)
★ 7.0 · 961 votes · Crime, Thriller, Drama
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.
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15. A Perfect Murder (1998)
★ 6.6 · 1,620 votes · Crime, Thriller, Drama
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.
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