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Movies that feel like Bleeder (1999)

If you loved Bleeder, the closest films we have are The Square (2008), Pusher 3 (2005) and In the Fade (2017). All three share Bleeder's gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Two stories for the price of one: a video store clerk tries to get acquainted with a waitress; a man beats his pregnant wife, unaware that her brother is a violent racist.

6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Nicolas Winding Refncontemplativegrittywarmrelentless
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The Square
2008 · dir. Nash Edgerton
🍅 86%6.7crime · drama · thriller

The same two preoccupations: revenge, and murder

The difference: Not nearly as warm as Bleeder

Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and Ray will steal Greg's money, burn down her house, convince Greg the money was lost in the fire and then run away together. Carla's scheme, however, doesn't go off as planned.

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Pusher 3
2005 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 93%7.3action · thriller · crime

Nicolas Winding Refn working the same nerve twice

The difference: None of the stillness Bleeder is built on

Milo is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday, and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10,000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to ask for help from his ex-henchman and old friend Radovan.

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In the Fade
2017 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 75%7.1drama · crime

The same preoccupation in both: racism

Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.

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The Outfit
1973 · dir. John Flynn
🍅 86%7crime · drama

One thread runs through both: revenge

The difference: 26 years apart, and the 1970s show

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

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The Salvation
2014 · dir. Kristian Levring
🍅 72%6.7drama · western

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

The difference: Leans harder into western than Bleeder does

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

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The Yards
2000 · dir. James Gray
🍅 64%6.4crime · drama · thriller

Common ground: male friendship

In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.

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A Bittersweet Life
2005 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 100%7.5action · drama · crime

Both land stillness and grit at once

Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.

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A Better Tomorrow
1986 · dir. John Woo
🍅 95%7.4action · crime · drama

Both lean on relentlessness more than on drama

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

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Pusher II
2004 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 100%7.3action · crime · drama

The same hand behind both of them: Nicolas Winding Refn

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

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Pusher
1996 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 83%7.3action · crime · drama

Both are built on the same subject: copenhagen, denmark

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

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Drive
2011 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 93%7.8drama · thriller · crime

Contemplative crime, and it commits to that

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

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Rolling Thunder
1977 · dir. John Flynn
🍅 82%6.9drama · thriller · action

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. He has a hard time adjusting, and things go badly. A movie about the walking dead, before that meant just flesh-eating zombies.

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