What the corpus says about Scarface (1983)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Scarface (1983) 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 Scarface (1983) 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 Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Scarface ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The film has references to classic gangster films like the original Scarface that feel like pastiche. · "there's a couple of references in this movie to classic gangster films like the original Scarface"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.40)] Blow ↔ Scarface · theme · A cocaine-movies series idea: Scarface (transcribed 'Starface') and Blow. · "Starface. Blow. Blow."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:40:51 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] This Is the End ↔ Scarface · career · Dick-measuring line 'Scarface style' called great. · "Except Scarface, that was great."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:05:30 · Brian Koppelman (0.85)] Pi ↔ Scarface · people · The most famous face in Pi is Mark Margolis, who played Sosa's assassin in Scarface. · "The most famous guy in it is the guy who was the assassin for Sosa"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:11:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Al Pacino ↔ Scarface · career · Theory that Scarface broke Pacino by knocking him off his axis between over-the-top and nuanced. · "the theory of Pacino is that he was broken by Scarface"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:28:32 · unknown (0.35)] Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ↔ Scarface · first role · Mastrantonio's film debut was Scarface, followed by Color of Money; she was an understudy on West Side Story and in the Amadeus Broadway cast. · "She was on Broadway and various musicals, including as an understudy in the 1980 run of West Side Story, but that's like 3 years before Scarface."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:59:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Infernal Affairs ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, which is tighter. · "It was called Infernal Affairs, the Hark Kong one?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:47:07 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · programming · Hitler-in-comedy debate: they just did Hitler in Last Crusade. · "We just did Hitler in Last Crusade."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:25:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Departed · theme · The rat in the air duct at Langley recalls The Departed's final shot, the hunt for a betraying rat. · "the rat in the air air duct in Langley, like a little bit of like the departed final shot"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:06:44 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Pineapple Express · programming · Pineapple Express is the pick for best double feature with This Is the End. · "It's gotta be pineapple."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Departed · craft · The fast-cutting montage with a blues soundtrack explosion in the Grady Seasons scene is a Scorsese move they also discussed on The Departed and Wolf of Wall Street. · "This like super fast cutting montage blues soundtrack explosion thing that he does"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:07:20 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation · programming · Best comedy sequel chat: Christmas Vacation over European Vacation. · "Christmas vacation maybe."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:17:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Dropkick Murphys · craft · The Dropkick Murphys needle drop over the title sequence is singled out as a high point of the film. · "The title sequence coming in 18 minutes in with Dropkick Murphy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:03:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Charlie Kaufman ⇒ This Is the End (the maker said so: came up in the research) · lineage · Goldberg said the film was meant to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman. · "He said the whole point of this movie, they're just trying to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:21:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Asked which soundtrack he prefers, Simmons picks Goodfellas. · "Which soundtrack do you prefer this or Goodfellas?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:03:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] This Is the End ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · lineage · Celebrities playing exaggerated versions of themselves with real insults leaking through is a Larry Sanders move. · "This has so many Larry Sanders moments where it's like, They're celebrities, but they're, they're playing like exaggerated or shticky versions of themselves"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:58:26 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Heat · craft · Heat is long and full of huge stars like this, but Mann's decisions were all considered while The Departed feels like flying by the seat of its pants. · "I felt like heat was crafted. Every decision he makes is really well thought out"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:13:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read) · lineage · The movie grew out of the 8-minute short Rogen and Goldberg made. · "It was based on a short that, uh, Rogan and Goldberg did called Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:29:25 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] This Is the End ↔ Blood Red (unmade Pineapple Express 2) · lineage · The Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse homemade footage echoes the planned Pineapple Express 2, Blood Red. · "If they were going to make it, it was going to be blood red."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:03:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Pineapple Express ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read) · lineage · A weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express; Pineapple Express is the double feature pick. · "this is kind of like a weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express anyway."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[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
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[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] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[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 Scarface (1983); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Scarface (1983) 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.