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Movies that feel like After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
Three desperados try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.
If you loved After Dark, My Sweet, the closest films we have are The Third Murder (2017), 12 (2007) and The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014). All three share After Dark, My Sweet's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Lantana (2001).
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If After Dark, My Sweet hit the spot, these will too
Gritty where it counts, contemplative underneath
27 years apart, and the 2010s show
Twisty crime in both cases
Mystery with a pulse of grit, in both cases
Leans harder into documentary than After Dark, My Sweet does
Drama built on stillness, twice over
Both lean on twists more than on drama
Trades the grit of After Dark, My Sweet for an angle of its own
Gritty crime, and it commits to that
Mystery with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
Both lean on twists more than on crime
Both know what they want from drama
The mystery is handled with the same confidence
The same drama instincts
Both working the same crime territory
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The best-reviewed films that share After Dark, My Sweet’s defining feeling.
