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Movies that feel likeLe Doulos (1962)

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?

If you loved Le Doulos, the closest films we have are Le Samouraï (1967), Shoot the Piano Player (1960) and Blast of Silence (1961). All three share Le Doulos' contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jean-Pierre Melvillecontemplativetensegrittyatmospheric
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Le Samouraï
1967 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 92%★ 8crime · thriller · dramaPrime VideoMax

Jean-Pierre Melville directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

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Shoot the Piano Player
1960 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 90%★ 7.4drama · thriller · crimeMax

Both are built on the same subject: french noir

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

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Blast of Silence
1961 · dir. Allen Baron
🍅 83%★ 7.4crime · drama · thriller

Contemplative where it counts, tense underneath

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.

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Odd Man Out
1947 · dir. Carol Reed
🍅 100%★ 7.6crime · drama · thrillerMax

Gritty and atmospheric in the same breath

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

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Night Moves
1975 · dir. Arthur Penn
🍅 78%★ 7.1thriller · crime · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

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Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 88%★ 7.4crime · drama · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

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The Narrow Margin
1952 · dir. Richard Fleischer
🍅 100%★ 7.6thriller · crime

Crime built on grit, twice over

The difference: Trades the stillness of Le Doulos for an angle of its own

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.

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The Long Good Friday
1980 · dir. John Mackenzie
🍅 97%★ 7.5crime · thriller · dramaMax

Drama with a pulse of atmosphere, in both cases

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

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Killer's Kiss
1955 · dir. Stanley Kubrick
🍅 83%★ 6.5thriller · crime · dramaPrime Video

Contemplative thriller in both cases

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.

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The Big Risk
1960 · dir. Claude Sautet
🍅 100%★ 7.5crime

One thread runs through both: french noir

Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with his family.

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The Big Clock
1948 · dir. John Farrow
🍅 100%★ 7.6crime · thriller

Tense crime in both cases

George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.

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Criss Cross
1949 · dir. Robert Siodmak
🍅 86%★ 7.4crime · thriller

Both lean on grit more than on thriller

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband.

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