
Movies that feel like Killing Them Softly (2012)
If you loved Killing Them Softly, the closest films we have are Legend (2015), Phone Booth (2003) and No Country for Old Men (2007). All three share Killing Them Softly's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium and Paramount Plus Essential and others, checked against today's data.
If Killing Them Softly hit the spot, these will too

Gangster is the engine of both

The same mix in both: grit, then tension

Both keep circling back to hitman
The difference: Plays it as western more than Killing Them Softly does

Gritty crime, and it commits to that


Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases
The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

The same preoccupation in both: murder

Both trade on grit more than on being crime

Tense thriller in both cases

Gangster sits at the heart of each
The difference: A 1990s film, from a different era of filmmaking

The same preoccupation in both: hitman

The same crime instincts
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