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Movies that feel likeKillers of the Flower Moon (2023)

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

If you loved Killers of the Flower Moon, the closest films we have are Gangs of New York (2002), The Irishman (2019) and Just Mercy (2019). All three share Killers of the Flower Moon's gritty and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Serpico (1973).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martin Scorsesegrittyepiccontemplative
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Gangs of New York
2002 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 72%★ 7.5drama · history · crimeParamount+Starz

Martin Scorsese directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

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The Irishman
2019 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 95%★ 7.8crime · drama · historyNetflix

The same hand behind both of them: Martin Scorsese

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

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Just Mercy
2019 · dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
🍅 85%★ 7.6drama · crime · history

The same two preoccupations: a true story, and racism

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

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Richard Jewell
2019 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 77%★ 7.5drama · history · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

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Black Mass
2015 · dir. Scott Cooper
🍅 74%★ 6.8drama · crime · history

Two things both keep coming back to: fbi and murder

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

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House of Gucci
2021 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 62%★ 6.6drama · crime · historyPrime VideoHulu

The same preoccupation in both: murder

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.

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J. Edgar
2011 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 44%★ 6.5drama · crime · history

Both are built on the same subject: fbi

As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.

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Silence
2016 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 83%★ 7.2drama · historyRent or buy

Epic where it counts, contemplative underneath

The difference: Lighter on grit

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

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Casino
1995 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 79%★ 8.2crime · dramaPrime Video

Common ground: greed

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

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Spotlight
2015 · dir. Tom McCarthy
🍅 97%★ 8.1drama · history

Both lean on grit more than on history

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

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All the Money in the World
2017 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 79%★ 6.8crime · history · thrillerRent or buy

Crime built on grit, twice over

The difference: Played as thriller first

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

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Serpico
1973 · dir. Sidney Lumet
🍅 93%★ 7.7crime · drama · history

Epic drama in both cases

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

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