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Movies that feel like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

If you loved Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the closest films we have are Shane (1953), The Sting (1973) and Bad Education (2004). All three share Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'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 HBO Max, Paramount Plus Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.

πŸ… 89% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. George Roy Hillgrittycontemplativewarm

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Shane
1953 Β· dir. George Stevens
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.6drama Β· western

The same mix in both: grit, then stillness

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

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The Sting
1973 Β· dir. George Roy Hill
πŸ… 93%β˜… 8.2comedy Β· crime Β· drama

George Roy Hill directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Without the same warmth

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

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Bad Education
2004 Β· dir. Pedro AlmodΓ³var
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.4drama Β· crime

Crime with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

The difference: 35 years apart, and the 2000s show

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

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Midnight Cowboy
1969 Β· dir. John Schlesinger
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.8drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Not nearly as gritty

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

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Hang 'em High
1968 Β· dir. Ted Post
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7western Β· drama

Both lean on grit more than on western

Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and starts dispensing his own brand of Wild West justice.

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Bonnie and Clyde
1967 Β· dir. Arthur Penn
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.7crime Β· drama

Gritty crime in both cases

In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow, and together they start a violent crime spree throughout the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.

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Papillon
1973 Β· dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
πŸ… 74%β˜… 8crime Β· drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

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The Yards
2000 Β· dir. James Gray
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.4crime Β· drama Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: male friendship

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Spring Breakers
2013 Β· dir. Harmony Korine
πŸ… 67%β˜… 5.3drama Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: shootout

After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.

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Trainspotting
1996 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 93%β˜… 8.1drama Β· crime

Both lean on warmth more than on western

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

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The Wild Bunch
1969 Β· dir. Sam Peckinpah
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.9western

Common ground: shootout

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

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Pixote
1980 Β· dir. HΓ©ctor Babenco
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.9crime Β· drama

Cut from the same crime cloth

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

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