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Movies that feel like Loving Pablo (2017)

If you loved Loving Pablo, the closest films we have are Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019), A Touch of Sin (2013) and Molly's Game (2017). All three share Loving Pablo's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Paramount Plus Premium and ARROW and others, checked against today's data.

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

🍅 33% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Fernando León de Aranoagrittycontemplative
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile poster
🍅 54%6.7drama · crime

Both are working the same pair: biography, a true story

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

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

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Molly's Game
2017 · dir. Aaron Sorkin
🍅 82%7.4drama · crime

One thread runs through both: biography

Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

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

Both land grit and stillness at once

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: journalist

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Loving Pablo does

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

Both lean on grit more than on crime

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

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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Lilya 4-ever
2002 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 84%7.8drama · crime

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

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First Cow
2020 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 95%7.1drama · western

The drama is handled with the same confidence

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.

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

Both working the same crime territory

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

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

Both know what they want from crime

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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