Movies like A Bronx Tale

A feature-film shortlist from the cached Film Atlas engine. The interactive map may include more titles or newer results. These are similarity matches, not a guarantee of age suitability.

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   Casino

   Strong story similarity

   1995 · 179 min · Crime · Drama

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   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.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: gambling and italian american
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Cape Fear

   Shared cast

   1991 · 128 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   Once Upon a Time in America

   Strong story similarity

   1984 · 139 min · Crime · Drama

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   A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: 1960s and gangster

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   GoodFellas

   Strong story similarity

   1990 · 145 min · Crime · Drama

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   The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: gangster and mafia

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   The Basketball Diaries

   Strong story similarity

   1995 · 102 min · Crime · Drama

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   A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Donnie Brasco

   Strong story similarity

   1997 · 127 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: gangster and mafia

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   The Funeral

   Strong story similarity

   1996 · 99 min · Crime · Drama

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   After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: funeral and mafia

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   Sleepers

   Strong story similarity

   1996 · 147 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: 1960s and gangster

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   American Gangster

   Strong story similarity

   2007 · 157 min · Crime · Drama

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   Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: 1960s and gangster

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    Miller's Crossing

    Strong story similarity

    1990 · 115 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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    Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: gangster and loyalty

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