
Movies that feel likePromising Young Woman (2020)
If you loved Promising Young Woman, the closest films we have are Dogman (2018), The Salesman (2016) and Wrath of Man (2021). All three share Promising Young Woman's tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Square (2008).
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If Promising Young Woman hit the spot, these will too

The same preoccupation in both: revenge
The difference: Trades the wistfulness of Promising Young Woman for an angle of its own

Both keep coming back to the same thing: rape and revenge

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

Both land tension and grit at once

Contemplative where it counts, relentless underneath

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Contemplative crime, and it commits to that

Wistful thriller in both cases
The difference: Sits closer to action than Promising Young Woman does

Both lean on relentlessness more than on crime
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Tense drama in both cases

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