Movies Like Crimson Gold (2003)

Crimson Gold is a 2003 crime, drama film from Jafar Panahi with a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Sherlock Jr. and Blonde Crazy.

Crime Drama

Sherlock Jr.

1924

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

8.1

MagicScore

Blonde Crazy

1931

The adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

7.0

MagicScore

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

2001

CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.

6.6

MagicScore

Terror by Night

1946

Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.

6.5

MagicScore

Duck Season

2004

Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery.

7.1

MagicScore

Taxi

1998

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.

6.7

MagicScore

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

2009

Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink he meets on the hospital stairs. As Christmas approaches, Rose uses her fantastical experiences as a professional wrestler, her imagination, wit and charm to allow Oscar to live life and love to the full, in the company of his friends Pop Corn, Einstein, Bacon and childhood sweetheart Peggy Blue. Written by American Film Market

6.5

MagicScore

A Long Way Down

2014

Four lost souls—a disgraced TV presenter, a foul-mouthed teen, an isolated single mother, and a solipsistic muso—decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When this disillusioned quartet of strangers meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, a London high-rise with the well-earned nickname Topper's Tower, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family. They become media sensations as the Topper House Four and search together for the reasons to keep on living.

6.2

MagicScore

Close-Up

1990

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

8.0

MagicScore

#10

The Con Is On

2018

In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.

3.9

MagicScore

#11

Oliver Twist

1948

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

7.6

MagicScore

#12

Gangs of New York

2002

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

7.3

MagicScore

#13

Pickpocket

1959

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

7.3

MagicScore

#14

Oliver Twist

2005

6.7

MagicScore

#15

Big Brown Eyes

1936

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.

6.3

MagicScore

#16

Oliver Twist

1982

6.6

MagicScore

#17

The Cop in Blue Jeans

1976

A top undercover cop finds and arrests a series of purse snatchers until he discovers an American at the top of an evil ring of thieves.

6.1

MagicScore

#18

The Stolen Jools

1931

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

5.6

MagicScore

#19

Dunston Checks In

1996

Hotel manager Robert Grant is forced by his boss to postpone his family vacation when a hotel critic checks in. Trouble is, the critic is really a villainous jewel thief with an orangutan assistant named Dunston. When Dunston gets loose and tries to escape a life of crime -- aided by Robert's sons -- havoc, hijinks and lots of laughs abound!

5.4

MagicScore

#20

Harry in Your Pocket

1973

A master thief and his drug-addicted partner teach two aspiring crooks how to steal wallets.

5.7

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Crimson Gold?

The top films similar to Crimson Gold by MovieMagicScore are Sherlock Jr. (8.1), Blonde Crazy (7.0), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (6.6). Each shares crime/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Crimson Gold worth watching?

Crimson Gold holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10 from 82 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Crimson Gold?

Crimson Gold (2003) is a crime, drama film directed by Jafar Panahi, starring Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji.

Where can I find more recommendations like Crimson Gold?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more crime recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Crimson Gold

This ranked list pairs Crimson Gold (2003), a crime and drama film from Jafar Panahi, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Hossain Emadeddin take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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