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Movies that feel like Dogville (2003)

If you loved Dogville, the closest films we have are 25th Hour (2002), End of Watch (2012) and Memories of Murder (2003). All three share Dogville's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Paramount Plus Premium, AMC+ and Sundance Now and others, checked against today's data.

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lars von Triergrittycontemplativetensewarmdreamlike
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Manderlay (2005)

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25th Hour
2002 · dir. Spike Lee
🍅 79%7.6crime · drama

Two things both keep coming back to: friendship and american dream

The difference: Missing the tension of Dogville

On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.

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End of Watch
2012 · dir. David Ayer
🍅 85%7.6crime · drama · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

The difference: None of the dream logic Dogville is built on

Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.

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Memories of Murder
2003 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
8.1crime · drama · thriller

Both are working the same pair: rape, police

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

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A Time to Kill
1996 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 66%7.5crime · drama · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: blackmail

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

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Irreversible
2002 · dir. Gaspar Noé
🍅 60%7.3drama · thriller · crime

Common ground: rape

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

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

The same preoccupation in both: gangster

The difference: Sits closer to action than Dogville does

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

Gritty and contemplative in the same breath

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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The Silence
2010 · dir. Baran bo Odar
🍅 87%6.9crime · thriller · drama

Both lean on tension more than on crime

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

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Bad Education
2004 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 88%7.4drama · crime

Warm drama, and it commits to that

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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Caliber 9
1972 · dir. Fernando Di Leo
7.4crime · thriller

One thread runs through both: police

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

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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Insomnia
2002 · dir. Christopher Nolan
🍅 92%7.2thriller · crime · drama

One thread runs through both: blackmail

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

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Layer Cake
2004 · dir. Matthew Vaughn
🍅 81%7.2drama · thriller · crime

One thread runs through both: gangster

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

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