IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like The Hustler (1961)
The Hustler runs on rise-and-fall tragedy, bittersweet, and slow unraveling. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Body and Soul
1947
The Gambler
1974
Pépé le Moko
1937
La Chienne
1931
Champion
1949
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
They Live by Night
1949
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
Cry of the City
1948
Illegal
1955
Scarlet Street
1945
Requiem for a Heavyweight
1962
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973
Johnny Eager
1941
Bob le Flambeur
1956
Shoot the Piano Player
1960
Vaastav
1999
The Harder They Fall
1956
I Died a Thousand Times
1955
Awarapan
2007
High Sierra
1941
The Killers
1946
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
2018
Read My Lips
2001