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Movies that feel like Point Blank (1967)

If you loved Point Blank, the closest films we have are Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Le Samouraï (1967) and Night Moves (1975). All three share Point Blank's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and Darkroom and others, checked against today's data.

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Boormangrittytensecontemplativerelentlessatmospheric
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Shoot the Piano Player
1960 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 90%7.4drama · thriller · crime

The same two preoccupations: organized crime, and neo-noir

The difference: Missing the relentlessness of Point Blank

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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Le Samouraï
1967 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 92%8crime · thriller · drama

The same preoccupation in both: neo-noir

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

Gritty where it counts, tense underneath

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

Both land stillness and atmosphere at once

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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Le Doulos
1962 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 96%7.7drama · thriller · crime

Gritty crime in both cases

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?

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

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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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The Godfather Part III
1990 · dir. Francis Ford Coppola
🍅 67%7.5crime · drama · thriller

Revenge is the engine of both

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

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Touch of Evil
1958 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 96%8crime · thriller · drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.

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One False Move
1992 · dir. Carl Franklin
🍅 93%7.1crime · drama · thriller

Both rooted in Los Angeles

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1990s show

Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.

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Drive
2011 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 93%7.8drama · thriller · crime

Both keep circling back to revenge

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

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

Crime with a pulse of atmosphere, in both cases

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

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Road to Perdition
2002 · dir. Sam Mendes
🍅 82%7.6crime · drama · thriller

Both built around organized crime

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.

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