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Movies that feel like Patriots Day (2016)

If you loved Patriots Day, the closest films we have are Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008), Black Mass (2015) and Sixty Minutes (2024). All three share Patriots Day's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers before they strike again.

πŸ… 80% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Peter Bergkineticgrittycontemplativeepictense
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct poster
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
2008 Β· dir. Jean-FranΓ§ois Richet
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.5drama Β· action Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

The difference: Not nearly as epic as Patriots Day

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.

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Black Mass
2015 Β· dir. Scott Cooper
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.8drama Β· crime Β· history

Both are built on the same subject: boston, massachusetts

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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Sixty Minutes
2024 Β· dir. Oliver Kienle
πŸ… 67%β˜… 5.7action Β· adventure Β· crime

Both land momentum and grit at once

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Patriots Day does

Desperate to keep custody of his daughter, a mixed martial arts fighter abandons a big match and races across Berlin to attend her birthday party.

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Kung Fu Jungle
2014 Β· dir. Teddy Chan Tak-Sam
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.4action Β· thriller Β· crime

The same mix in both: scale, then tension

A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.

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Deepwater Horizon
2016 Β· dir. Peter Berg
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.1drama Β· action

Peter Berg directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019 Β· dir. Lee Won-tae
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7action Β· crime Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: a true story

After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in placeβ€”whoever finds K first will decide his fateβ€”the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

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The Town
2010 Β· dir. Ben Affleck
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.5crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: massachusetts

A proficient group of thieves rob a bank and hold the manager hostage. Things begin to get complicated when one of the crew members falls in love with her.

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The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008 Β· dir. Uli Edel
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.3action Β· crime Β· drama

Common ground: terrorism

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.

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In the Heart of the Sea
2015 Β· dir. Ron Howard
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.9thriller Β· drama Β· adventure

Action built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believeβ€”a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.

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Undisputed III: Redemption
2010 Β· dir. Isaac Florentine
β˜… 7.4action Β· thriller Β· crime

Kinetic crime, and it commits to that

Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.

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Mechanic: Resurrection
2016 Β· dir. Dennis Gansel
πŸ… 29%β˜… 5.8action Β· crime Β· thriller

Both lean on grit more than on thriller

Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.

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Kill
2024 Β· dir. Nikhil Nagesh Bhat
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.4action Β· crime Β· thriller

Contemplative drama in both cases

When an army commando finds out his true love is engaged against her will, he boards a New Dehli-bound train in a daring quest to derail the arranged marriage. But when a gang of knife-wielding thieves begin to terrorize innocent passengers on his train, the commando takes them on, one by one.

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