
Movies that feel like A Time to Kill (1996)
If you loved A Time to Kill, the closest films we have are Falling Down (1993), Phone Booth (2003) and Primal Fear (1996). All three share A Time to Kill's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and Sundance Now and others, checked against today's data.
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If A Time to Kill hit the spot, these will too

Joel Schumacher working the same nerve twice

The same hand behind both of them: Joel Schumacher
The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as A Time to Kill

The same two preoccupations: court, and lawyer

Common ground: court

One thread runs through both: rape

Both are built on the same subject: murder

Both keep coming back to the same thing: rape

The same preoccupation in both: murder
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

One thread runs through both: lawyer

Gritty where it counts, contemplative underneath

Tense crime, and it commits to that

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases
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