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Movies that feel like Caliber 9 (1972)

If you loved Caliber 9, the closest films we have are Phone Booth (2003), Legend (2015) and Killing Them Softly (2012). All three share Caliber 9's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Lionsgate+ Amazon Channels, Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads and others, checked against today's data.

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

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Phone Booth
2003 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 72%7.1thriller · crime

Gritty where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 2000s show

A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.

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Legend
2015 · dir. Brian Helgeland
🍅 60%6.9crime · thriller

Gangster sits at the heart of each

Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

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Killing Them Softly
2012 · dir. Andrew Dominik
🍅 74%6.2crime · thriller

Both built around gangster

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

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The Unjust
2010 · dir. Ryoo Seung-wan
6.5crime · thriller

Crime built on grit, twice over

An honest cop has to compromise with his principles when he is told to find a scapegoat for a high-profile serial killer case in exchange for a big promotion.

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No Country for Old Men
2007 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 93%8.2crime · thriller · western

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans western where Caliber 9 does not

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

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Girl in the Basement
2021 · dir. Elisabeth Röhm
6.3thriller · crime · tv movie

Gritty crime in both cases

Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.

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Body Heat
1981 · dir. Lawrence Kasdan
🍅 96%7.4thriller · crime

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.

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King of New York
1990 · dir. Abel Ferrara
🍅 74%6.9thriller · crime

Cut from the same crime cloth

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

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The Narrow Margin
1952 · dir. Richard Fleischer
🍅 100%7.6thriller · crime

Both are thriller through and through

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.

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Criss Cross
1949 · dir. Robert Siodmak
🍅 86%7.4crime · thriller

Crime approached the same way

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

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Out of the Past
1947 · dir. Jacques Tourneur
🍅 87%8crime · thriller

The same thriller instincts

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

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Ocean's Eleven
2001 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 83%7.7thriller · crime

Cut from the same crime cloth

Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.

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