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Movies that feel like Polar (2019)

If you loved Polar, the closest films we have are SPL: Kill Zone (2005), Bronson (2009) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). All three share Polar's kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.

🍅 20% Rotten Tomatoes6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jonas Åkerlundkineticgrittycontemplativelonelyatmospheric
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SPL: Kill Zone
2005 · dir. Wilson Yip
🍅 80%6.9action · crime · drama

Common ground: neo-noir

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Chan, an articulate senior detective nearing the end of his career, is taking care of the daughter of a witness killed by ruthless crime lord Po. Martial arts expert Ma is set to take over as head of the crime unit, replacing Chan who wants an early retirement.

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Bronson
2009 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 75%7drama · action · crime

The same mix in both: momentum, then grit

The difference: Not nearly as atmospheric as Polar

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.

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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · dir. Frank Miller
🍅 43%6.5action · crime · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: based on graphic novel

The difference: None of the stillness Polar is built on

Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

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Animal Kingdom
2010 · dir. David Michôd
🍅 94%7.2crime · drama

Both are built on the same subject: neo-noir

Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.

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Pusher II
2004 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 100%7.3action · crime · drama

Contemplative and atmospheric in the same breath

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018 · dir. Stefano Sollima
🍅 62%7.1action · crime · thriller

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Polar does

Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.

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Widows
2018 · dir. Steve McQueen
🍅 91%6.8drama · crime · thriller

Crime built on grit, twice over

A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, they join forces to pull off a heist.

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Pusher
1996 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 83%7.3action · crime · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

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Certain Women
2016 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 92%6.4drama

The same preoccupation in both: montana

Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

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Kill Boksoon
2023 · dir. Byun Sung-hyun
🍅 79%6.6action · drama · thriller

Both are working the same pair: assassin, hitman

At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.

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Mystery Road
2013 · dir. Ivan Sen
🍅 91%6.6thriller · crime · drama

Lonely crime, and it commits to that

A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone.

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Deep Cover
1992 · dir. Bill Duke
🍅 87%7action · thriller · crime

Atmospheric action in both cases

Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.

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