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Movies that feel like After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

If you loved After Dark, My Sweet, the closest films we have are Brick (2006), Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Changeling (2008). All three share After Dark, My Sweet's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

Three desperados try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

πŸ… 80% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. James Foleygrittycontemplativetwisty

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If After Dark, My Sweet hit the spot, these will too

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Brick
2006 Β· dir. Rian Johnson
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.1drama Β· mystery Β· crime

Both land grit and stillness at once

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

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Murder on the Orient Express
2017 Β· dir. Kenneth Branagh
πŸ… 60%β˜… 6.5mystery Β· drama Β· crime

Twisty crime, and it commits to that

The difference: A 2010s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

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Changeling
2008 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 61%β˜… 7.7crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

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The Hateful Eight
2015 Β· dir. Quentin Tarantino
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.8drama Β· mystery Β· western

Mystery built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Leans western where After Dark, My Sweet does not

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

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Gone Baby Gone
2007 Β· dir. Ben Affleck
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.6crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both trade on twists more than on being crime

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasonsβ€”they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.

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The Bone Collector
1999 Β· dir. Phillip Noyce
πŸ… 30%β˜… 6.7crime Β· thriller Β· drama

Gritty drama in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.

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Lucky Number Slevin
2006 Β· dir. Paul McGuigan
β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Mystery built on stillness, twice over

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

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Lantana
2001 Β· dir. Ray Lawrence
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.2crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both trade on twists more than on being crime

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

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Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 Β· dir. Drew Goddard
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mystery Β· crime

Cut from the same crime cloth

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

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The Conversation
1974 Β· dir. Francis Ford Coppola
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.7crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Drama approached the same way

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

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GoodFellas
1990 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 93%β˜… 8.7drama Β· crime

The same crime instincts

The difference: Missing the twists of After Dark, My Sweet

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

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Casino
1995 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 79%β˜… 8.2crime Β· drama

Both are drama through and through

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

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