
Movies that feel like Pickpocket (1959)
If you loved Pickpocket, the closest films we have are Straight Time (1978), Blue Collar (1978) and The Godfather Part II (1974). All three share Pickpocket's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Criterion Channel, fuboTV and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.
If Pickpocket hit the spot, these will too

Prison is the engine of both

Gritty and contemplative in the same breath

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

Both built around prison
The difference: A 1990s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Both trade on grit more than on being crime
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The same crime instincts

Cut from the same drama cloth

Both are crime through and through

Drama approached the same way

The same crime instincts
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