Movies that feel likeFargo (1996)
If you loved Fargo, the closest films we have are Natural Born Killers (1994), Blood Simple (1985) and Miller's Crossing (1990). All three share Fargo's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Cop Car (2015).
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If Fargo hit the spot, these will too
Ordinary-seeming people turn out capable of shocking, senseless violence
The difference: Media-satire mass-murder spree, not a bumbling ransom scheme gone wrong
The Coens' early proof that a murder plot unravels through sheer incompetence
The difference: A jealous husband's scheme, not a debt-driven kidnapping for ransom
Coen-crafted loyalty curdles into betrayal amid organized crime
The difference: Prohibition-era gangster politics, not a small-town kidnapping scheme
A small scheme for money spirals into a high-wire disaster nobody can stop
The difference: A jeweler's frantic hustle, not a botched kidnapping in snowy Minnesota
A calm exterior conceals a capacity for violence that keeps escalating
The difference: A Wall Street psychopath's interior descent, not a bungled kidnapping plot
Dark humor cuts through violent crime as mismatched cops chase criminals
The difference: Buddy-cop action spectacle, not a quiet Midwestern procedural
Both are built on the same subject: murder
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Fargo does
Small-town detectives grind through an investigation that resists easy answers
The difference: A serial killer manhunt, not a kidnapping scheme spiraling out of hand
The same preoccupation in both: murder
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics
Dark comedy needles quietly at ordinary suburban dysfunction underneath
The difference: A midlife-crisis meltdown, not a crime plot buried under snow
One thread runs through both: dark comedy
The difference: Sits closer to action than Fargo does
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