Movies like Owning Mahowny (2003)
The best movies like Owning Mahowny (2003) are Wall Street (1987), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and The Gambler (1974). If Owning Mahowny hooked you with its crime and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013)8.0/10 from 26,927 votes
- NewestThe Luckiest Man in America (2025)Released 2025
Wall Street (1987)
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, who takes the youth under his wing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Gambler (1974)
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMoney (2019)
Get caught up in the tale of a new stock broker who dreams of becoming rich. Those dreams make him susceptible to a stock market scam that threatens to get him in trouble.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
The Gambler (2014)
Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrypto (2019)
A young agent is tasked with investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisBoiler Room (2000)
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpider's Web (2002)
A wily businessman plots with a sultry executive to swindle $40 million from his father. But who is conning who?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Casino (1995)
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 matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisRunner Runner (2013)
When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Wizard of Lies (2017)
A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUncut Gems (2019)
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTwo for the Money (2005)
A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRounders (1998)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHouse of Games (1987)
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBillionaire Boys Club (2018)
A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establishes a get rich quick scam that turns deadly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Rack Pack (2016)
The 1980s snooker rivalry between Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Steve “The Nugget” Davis, two very different personalities who helped popularise the sport on TV.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sour Grapes (1998)
The bond between cousins is tested when one wins a fortune with the other's money at Atlantic City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Hard Eight (1997)
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRevolver (2005)
Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner and, in fact, has taken so much money over the years that he's the sole client of his accountant elder brother, Billy. Invited to a private game, Jake is in fear of losing his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMolly's Game (2017)
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDeal (2008)
As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protégé is his toughest competition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisJulia (2008)
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bank Job (2008)
Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like this21 (2008)
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 tuition as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor to a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa to count cards at blackjack.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Luckiest Man in America (2025)
1984; Michael Larson, an unemployed ice-cream truck driver from Ohio, steps onto the game show "Press Your Luck" harboring a secret: the key to endless amounts of money. But his winning streak is threatened when the executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this13 (2010)
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBefore the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPoolhall Junkies (2002)
A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCon Man (2018)
The story of Barry Minkow, a young and charismatic figure in business who reaches CEO status by lying and scheming his way to the top.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Owning Mahowny?
The closest matches to Owning Mahowny are Wall Street (1987), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and The Gambler (1974). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Owning Mahowny?
People who watched Owning Mahowny most often go on to Wall Street (1987), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and The Gambler (1974).
What is the highest-rated movie like Owning Mahowny?
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), rated 8.0/10 by 26,927 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Owning Mahowny?
The Luckiest Man in America (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Owning Mahowny?
Yes: Wall Street (1987), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and The Gambler (1974).
How are movies similar to Owning Mahowny chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Owning Mahowny, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.