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Movies that feel like Black Souls (2014)

If you loved Black Souls, the closest films we have are The Drop (2014), The Place Beyond the Pines (2013) and American Gangster (2007). All three share Black Souls's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, YouTube TV and Starz Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A former narcotics smuggler, now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills, is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son.

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Francesco Munzigrittycontemplative

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The Drop
2014 · dir. Michaël R. Roskam
🍅 88%7drama · crime

Both land grit and stillness at once

Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.

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The Place Beyond the Pines
2013 · dir. Derek Cianfrance
🍅 79%7.3drama · crime

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

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American Gangster
2007 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 81%7.8drama · crime

Drug smuggling sits at the heart of each

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

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A Prophet
2009 · dir. Jacques Audiard
🍅 96%7.8crime · drama

The same preoccupation in both: mafia

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

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Molly's Game
2017 · dir. Aaron Sorkin
🍅 82%7.4drama · crime

Both trade on stillness more than on being drama

Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

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Frozen River
2008 · dir. Courtney Hunt
🍅 88%7.1drama · crime

Gritty crime in both cases

A financially strapped mother joins a Mohawk woman to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 · dir. Martin McDonagh
🍅 90%8.1crime · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

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Blow
2001 · dir. Ted Demme
🍅 56%7.5crime · drama

Both keep circling back to drug smuggling

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.

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Casino
1995 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 79%8.2crime · drama

Cut from the same crime cloth

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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GoodFellas
1990 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%8.7drama · crime

Both are drama through and through

The difference: A 1990s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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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The Wizard of Lies
2017 · dir. Barry Levinson
🍅 73%6.8crime · drama · tv movie

Crime approached the same way

The difference: Plays it as tv movie more than Black Souls does

A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.

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Hell or High Water
2016 · dir. David Mackenzie
🍅 97%7.6western · crime · drama

The same drama instincts

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

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