Movies like Circus
If Circus's mix of gangster, dark comedy and rope stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Circus's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
- 1
Pulp Fiction
1994 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 154 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster, dark comedy · Also thriller and crime
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper.
- 2
The Long Good Friday
1980 · Directed by John Mackenzie · 114 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also crime and thriller
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the…
- 3
Avengement
2019 · Directed by Jesse V. Johnson · 88 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also crime and thriller
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
- 4
Performance.
1970 · Directed by Nicolas Roeg · 106 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also crime and drama
In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar.
- 5
Get Out
2017 · Directed by Jordan Peele · 104 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: dark comedy, interracial relationship
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial…
- 6
Killer Joe
2012 · Directed by William Friedkin · 102 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: dark comedy · Also crime and thriller
A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.
- 7
The Hit
1984 · Directed by Stephen Frears · 98 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also drama and thriller
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
- 8
Gangster No. 1
2000 · Directed by Paul McGuigan · 103 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also drama and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately…
- 9
The Way of the Gun
2000 · Directed by Christopher McQuarrie · 119 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (2000s)
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.