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Movies that feel like Bronson (2009)

If you loved Bronson, the closest films we have are Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), Pusher II (2004) and Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013). All three share Bronson's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.

πŸ… 75% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Nicolas Winding Refncontemplativekineticgrittylonely

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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019 Β· dir. Joe Berlinger
πŸ… 54%β˜… 6.7drama Β· crime

Both are working the same pair: prison, biography

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as Bronson

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

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Pusher II
2004 Β· dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.3action Β· crime Β· drama

Nicolas Winding Refn directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Ip Man: The Final Fight
2013 Β· dir. Herman Yau
πŸ… 67%β˜… 6.1action Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: biography

Ip Man reluctantly begins a series of challenges from rival kung fu schools and is soon drawn into the dark and dangerous world of the Triads.

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πŸ… 94%β˜… 8drama

One thread runs through both: isolation

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.

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Mystery Road
2013 Β· dir. Ivan Sen
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.6thriller Β· crime Β· drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Bronson does

A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone.

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Polar
2019 Β· dir. Jonas Γ…kerlund
πŸ… 20%β˜… 6.3action Β· crime Β· drama

Kinetic where it counts, lonely underneath

When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.

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Pusher
1996 Β· dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.3action Β· crime Β· drama

Both are Nicolas Winding Refn's work, and they rhyme

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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R
2010 Β· dir. Tobias Lindholm
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.1crime Β· drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: prison

Imprisoned for violent assault, Rune is placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations.

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Richard Jewell
2019 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7.5drama Β· history Β· crime

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

The difference: Sits closer to history than Bronson does

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

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Pusher 3
2005 Β· dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.3action Β· thriller Β· crime

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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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Loving Pablo
2017 Β· dir. Fernando LeΓ³n de Aranoa
πŸ… 33%β˜… 6.4crime Β· drama

Common ground: a true story

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

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Undisputed III: Redemption
2010 Β· dir. Isaac Florentine
β˜… 7.4action Β· thriller Β· crime

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.

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