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Movies that feel likeFollowing (1999)

Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.

If you loved Following, the closest films we have are The Aura (2005), One False Move (1992) and The Long Good Friday (1980). All three share Following's contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is SPL: Kill Zone (2005).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Christopher Nolancontemplativetenseatmospheric
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The Aura
2005 · dir. Fabián Bielinsky
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: robbery and neo-noir

A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…

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One False Move
1992 · dir. Carl Franklin
🍅 93%★ 7.1crime · drama · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: neo-noir

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Following does

Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.

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The Long Good Friday
1980 · dir. John Mackenzie
🍅 97%★ 7.5crime · thriller · dramaMax

Contemplative where it counts, tense underneath

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

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SPL: Kill Zone
2005 · dir. Wilson Yip
🍅 80%★ 6.9action · crime · dramaPrime Video

Atmospheric drama, and it commits to that

Chan, an articulate senior detective nearing the end of his career, is taking care of the daughter of a witness killed by ruthless crime lord Po. Martial arts expert Ma is set to take over as head of the crime unit, replacing Chan who wants an early retirement.

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The Absent One
2014 · dir. Mikkel Nørgaard
🍅 92%★ 7.1thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Following does

Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.

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Detour
1945 · dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
🍅 98%★ 7.3drama · thrillerPrime Video

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: 54 years apart, and the 1940s show

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

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Sexy Beast
2001 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 87%★ 7.3crime · thriller · drama

Atmospheric thriller in both cases

Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.

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Phoenix
2014 · dir. Christian Petzold
🍅 98%★ 7.3drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

In the aftermath of WWII, German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly has to undergo facial reconstructive surgery following her survival from Auschwitz. Without recognising Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he's betrayed her, she agrees, becoming her own doppelgänger.

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A Simple Plan
1998 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 91%★ 7.5crime · drama · thrillerParamount+

Tense thriller in both cases

Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences.

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Night Moves
1975 · dir. Arthur Penn
🍅 78%★ 7.1thriller · crime · drama

A streak of atmosphere through both

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

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New World
2013 · dir. Park Hoon-jung
🍅 63%★ 7.5thriller · crime · drama

Both play drama straight

An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.

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Shoot the Piano Player
1960 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 90%★ 7.4drama · thriller · crimeMax

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

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