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Movies that feel likeInto the Abyss (2011)

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.

If you loved Into the Abyss, the closest films we have are The Thin Blue Line (1988), TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard (2013) and R (2010). All three share Into the Abyss' contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Black Souls (2014).

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Werner Herzogcontemplativegritty
6 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Criterion Channel · Kino Film Collection

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If Into the Abyss hit the spot, these will too

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The Thin Blue Line
1988 · dir. Errol Morris
🍅 100%★ 7.9crime · documentary

The same two preoccupations: death penalty, and texas

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

One night in November 1976, after his car breaks down on a road outside Dallas, Randall Dale Adams accepts a ride from teenager David Harris. Harris is driving a stolen vehicle and, later that night, when Dallas police officer Robert Wood pulls the car over to check its headlights, he is shot and killed. A jury believes Adams is the killer, but stylized reenactments and interviews with key figures, conflicting testimonies and evidence are presented to argue that Adams was framed by a corrupt justice system, ultimately leading to his exoneration.

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★ 7.4documentary · crimeRent or buy

Contemplative where it counts, gritty underneath

TPB AFK is a documentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution with their hobby homepage The Pirate Bay. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid hacker libertarian – get the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? TPB AFK explores what Hollywood’s most hated pirates go through on a personal level.

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R
2010 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 91%★ 7.1crime · drama

Crime built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Into the Abyss does

Imprisoned for violent assault, Rune is placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations.

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My Name Ain't Johnny
2008 · dir. Mauro Lima
★ 7.2crime · drama

Gritty documentary, and it commits to that

The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.

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Black Souls
2014 · dir. Francesco Munzi
🍅 89%★ 6.8crime · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on crime

A former narcotics smuggler, now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills, is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son.

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Amanda Knox
2016 · dir. Rod Blackhurst
🍅 82%★ 6.9documentary · crimeNetflix

Gritty documentary in both cases

This gripping, atmospheric documentary recounts the infamous trial, conviction and eventual acquittal of Seattle native Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of a British exchange student in Italy.

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Frozen River
2008 · dir. Courtney Hunt
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · crime

Crime in the same key

A financially strapped mother joins a Mohawk woman to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.

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A Touch of Sin
2013 · dir. Jia Zhangke
🍅 95%★ 7.1crime · drama

Both are crime through and through

Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village. A migrant discovers the possibilities of owning a firearm. A receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one job to the next.

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Green Fish
1997 · dir. Lee Chang-dong
★ 7drama · crime

Crime approached the same way

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

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7 Prisoners
2021 · dir. Alexandre Moratto
🍅 98%★ 7.1drama · crimeNetflix

Both working the same crime territory

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.

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The Fool
2014 · dir. Yury Bykov
🍅 93%★ 7.9drama

Contemporaries, and it shows

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.

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Leviathan
2014 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
🍅 97%★ 7.6drama · crime

Both play crime straight

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

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