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Movies that feel like Irreversible (2002)

If you loved Irreversible, the closest films we have are The Silence (2010), Memories of Murder (2003) and A Time to Kill (1996). All three share Irreversible's contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

🍅 60% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gaspar Noécontemplativetensegritty

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The Silence
2010 · dir. Baran bo Odar
🍅 87%7crime · thriller · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: rape

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

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Memories of Murder
2003 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
8.1crime · drama · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: police

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

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A Time to Kill
1996 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 66%7.5crime · drama · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: rape

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

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The Yellow Sea
2010 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 88%7.3drama · thriller · crime

One thread runs through both: police

A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

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Holy Spider
2022 · dir. Ali Abbasi
🍅 82%7.3thriller · drama · crime

Common ground: prostitute

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

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Layer Cake
2004 · dir. Matthew Vaughn
🍅 81%7.2drama · thriller · crime

The same mix in both: stillness, then tension

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

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36th Precinct
2004 · dir. Olivier Marchal
🍅 100%7.1crime · drama · thriller

Both lean on grit more than on drama

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.

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Collateral
2004 · dir. Michael Mann
🍅 86%7.5drama · crime · thriller

Contemplative thriller in both cases

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.

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A History of Violence
2005 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 88%7.4drama · thriller · crime

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

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We Own the Night
2007 · dir. James Gray
🍅 57%6.8drama · crime · thriller

Drama built on grit, twice over

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

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Sleepers
1996 · dir. Barry Levinson
🍅 76%7.5crime · drama · thriller

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.

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Red Rock West
1993 · dir. John Dahl
🍅 95%7crime · drama · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on crime

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

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