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Movies that feel like Django (1966)

If you loved Django, the closest films we have are Branded to Kill (1967), Duck, You Sucker (1971) and Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973). All three share Django's gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel and ARROW and others, checked against today's data.

A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.

πŸ… 94% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Sergio Corbuccikineticgritty
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Branded to Kill
1967 Β· dir. Seijun Suzuki
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.2thriller Β· crime Β· action

The same preoccupation in both: hitman

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Django does

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

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Duck, You Sucker
1971 Β· dir. Sergio Leone
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.5western

Both keep coming back to the same thing: spaghetti western

The difference: None of the momentum Django is built on

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 Β· dir. Kinji Fukasaku
β˜… 7.4crime Β· action Β· drama

Kinetic and gritty in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Django does

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

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Magnum Force
1973 Β· dir. Ted Post
πŸ… 69%β˜… 7.2drama Β· crime Β· action

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.

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Bullitt
1968 Β· dir. Peter Yates
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.4action Β· crime Β· thriller

Western with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.

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The Killer
1989 Β· dir. John Woo
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7action Β· crime Β· drama

Both are built on the same subject: hitman

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 1980s show

Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.

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True Grit
1969 Β· dir. Henry Hathaway
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.4western

Both lean on grit more than on western

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.

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Chocolate
2008 Β· dir. Prachya Pinkaew
πŸ… 71%β˜… 6.9action Β· crime

Kinetic action in both cases

Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.

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For a Few Dollars More
1965 Β· dir. Sergio Leone
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8.2western

One thread runs through both: spaghetti western

Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.

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Enforcement
2020 Β· dir. Frederik Louis Hviid
πŸ… 82%β˜… 6.5action Β· crime

Both are action through and through

The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers Jens and Mike are on routine patrol in SvalegΓ₯rden's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting uncontrollable, pent-up rage in the ghetto's youth, who lust for revenge. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves fair game and must fight tooth and claw to find a way out.

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Assault on Precinct 13
1976 Β· dir. John Carpenter
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.3thriller Β· action Β· crime

Action of the same temperament

A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

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Tokyo Drifter
1966 Β· dir. Seijun Suzuki
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· crime Β· action

Action in the same key

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

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