Movies like Blackjack
If Blackjack's mix of casino, heist and blaxploitation cinema stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Blackjack's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
- 1
Heat
1995 · Directed by Michael Mann · 170 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: heist · Also crime and action
Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest.
- 2
Baby Driver
2017 · Directed by Edgar Wright · 113 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: heist · Also action and crime
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
- 3
The Getaway
1972 · Directed by Sam Peckinpah · 123 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: heist · Also action and crime · From the same decade (1970s)
A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
- 4
Play Dirty
2025 · Directed by Shane Black · 128 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: heist · Also crime and action
Expert thief Parker gets a shot at a major heist, but to pull it off he and his team must outsmart a South American dictator, the New York mob, and the world's richest man.
- 5
Ocean's Eleven
2001 · Directed by Steven Soderbergh · 116 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: casino, heist
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las…
- 6
Gangster No. 1
2000 · Directed by Paul McGuigan · 103 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: casino · Also action and crime
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…
- 7
The Long Good Friday
1980 · Directed by John Mackenzie · 114 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: casino
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…
- 8
Sexy Beast
2001 · Directed by Jonathan Glazer · 89 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: heist
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…
- 9
Coffy
1973 · Directed by Jack Hill · 90 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: blaxploitation cinema · From the same decade (1970s)
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her…
- 10
Bugsy
1991 · Directed by Barry Levinson · 136 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: casino
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.