
Movies that feel likeHard Candy (2006)
If you loved Hard Candy, the closest films we have are Side Effects (2013), 21 Grams (2003) and The Devil All the Time (2020). All three share Hard Candy'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 Charley Varrick (1973).
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If Hard Candy hit the spot, these will too

Both land stillness and tension at once
The difference: Leans harder into crime than Hard Candy does

Melancholy and gritty in the same breath

One thread runs through both: suicide

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The same preoccupation in both: insanity

Both lean on tension more than on thriller
The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Both keep coming back to the same thing: suicide

Melancholy drama, and it commits to that
The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Hard Candy does


Drama built on stillness, twice over
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

From the 2010s, and it lands the same way

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