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Movies that feel like Green Fish (1997)

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

If you loved Green Fish, the closest films we have are R (2010), My Name Ain't Johnny (2008) and Black Souls (2014). All three share Green Fish's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Blue Collar (1978).

★ 7 IMDb ↗dir. Lee Chang-dongcontemplative · gritty
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If Green Fish hit the spot, these will too

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R
2010 · 🍅 91% · ★ 7.1

Contemplative where it counts, gritty underneath

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My Name Ain't Johnny
2008 · ★ 7.2

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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Black Souls
2014 · 🍅 89% · ★ 6.8

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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Frozen River
2008 · 🍅 88% · ★ 7.1

Contemplative drama in both cases

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Straight Time
1978 · 🍅 82% · ★ 7.4

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

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Blue Collar
1978 · 🍅 96% · ★ 7.5

Both know what they want from drama

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Pixote
1980 · 🍅 94% · ★ 7.9

Crime of the same temperament

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A Short Film About Killing
1988 · 🍅 91% · ★ 7.9

Drama in the same key

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A Touch of Sin
2013 · 🍅 95% · ★ 7.1

The crime is handled with the same confidence

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Close-Up
1990 · 🍅 89% · ★ 8.2

Both play drama straight

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Evil
2003 · 🍅 68% · ★ 7.7

The same drama instincts

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Into the Abyss
2011 · 🍅 92% · ★ 7.3

Both working the same crime territory

Leans harder into documentary than Green Fish does

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The best-reviewed films that share Green Fish’s defining feeling.