
Movies that feel likeHow I Fell in Love with a Gangster (2022)
If you loved How I Fell in Love with a Gangster, the closest films we have are Enforcement (2020), Law of Tehran (2019) and True Romance (1993). All three share How I Fell in Love with a Gangster's gritty and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Unthinkable (2018).
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If How I Fell in Love with a Gangster hit the spot, these will too

The same mix in both: grit, then momentum
The difference: Less contemplative, more its own thing

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
The difference: Reviewed even better

One thread runs through both: love
The difference: Played as romance first

Two things both keep coming back to: gangster and a true story
The difference: Leans further into thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love

Common ground: gangster
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Both lean on grit more than on action

Kinetic drama in both cases

Romantic crime, and it commits to that

Action built on stillness, twice over

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

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