
Movies that feel like Rififi (1955)
If you loved Rififi, the closest films we have are Le Cercle Rouge (1970), The Killing (1956) and Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958). All three share Rififi's gritty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.
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If Rififi hit the spot, these will too

Paris shapes both of them

One thread runs through both: heist

Common ground: burglary
The difference: Missing the tension of Rififi

Both keep coming back to the same thing: heist

Gritty where it counts, tense underneath

The same preoccupation in both: black and white
The difference: None of the play Rififi is built on

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

Contemplative crime in both cases

Gritty thriller, and it commits to that
The difference: Made in the 1920s, in a different era of the craft

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Both lean on stillness more than on crime

Thriller built on grit, twice over
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