What the corpus says about Straight Time (1978)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Straight Time (1978) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Straight Time (1978) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:23:18 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Emily the Criminal ↔ Straight Time · theme · Chris says Emily the Criminal has a bit of the vibe of 70s character-portrait crime movies like Straight Time. · "a little bit of a vibe of like 70s movies, like straight time, where it's just like a very, very cool character portrait"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:13:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ↔ Straight Time · career · Mann spent time in prison for his uncredited draft of Straight Time. · "which was the Dustin Hoffman movie, which he's not credited on, but he definitely did a draft of"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:47:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Sword of Trust ↔ Straight Time · feels like · It feels like a 70s movie you might catch on Turner Classic Movies, such as Straight Time. · "It kind of feels a little bit like a 70s movie that you would sort of catch on Turner classic or something like that, like straight time or something"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Public Enemies · programming · Remaining Mann candidates for future episodes. · "We got do, we got Manhunter, Black Hat, and Public Enemies left, I think."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Thief ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · Thief and Blade Runner mark a new era: neo-noir lone heroes in dystopian landscapes. · "Blade Runner also just feels like a new era."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:11:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Rififi ⇒ Thief (the host's read) · lineage · Thief draws on Bogart movies, Rififi, samurai movies, French New Wave. · "in thief, you can feel Humphrey Bogart movies, you can feel, Rafifi, you can feel samurai movies, you can feel French new wave."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:53:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ↔ Ridley Scott · lineage · On the Rewatchables they joked about whether Mann invented wetting the streets, with Ridley Scott dumping water. · "Remember Ridley Scott just dumping water on the streets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:06:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Escape from New York · theme · 1981 produced films that couldn't be made now. · "I wrote down 8 movies that I just don't think would ever happen now."
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Straight Time (1978); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Straight Time (1978) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.