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Movies that feel likeSave the Green Planet! (2003)

A young man believes that his country's leaders are actually toxic reptilian aliens sent down to launch a takeover of his beloved Earth. So he decides to abduct them and force the truth out on camera in his basement that doubles as a film studio and torture chamber.

If you loved Save the Green Planet!, the closest films we have are Key of Life (2012), Starsky & Hutch (2004) and Cutter's Way (1981). All three share Save the Green Planet!'s gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Outfit (1973).

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Key of Life
2012 Β· dir. Kenji Uchida
β˜… 7.3comedy Β· crime

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the relentlessness than Save the Green Planet!

A failed actor switches identities with a stranger at a bath house thinking it is his way out of his life of misery but only to find himself filling the shoes of an elite assassin.

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Starsky & Hutch
2004 Β· dir. Todd Phillips
πŸ… 63%β˜… 6.1comedy Β· crime

Both land grit and paranoia at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.

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Cutter's Way
1981 Β· dir. Ivan Passer
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.8drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

The difference: Takes it somewhere less witty than Save the Green Planet! does

Alex Cutter is a boozy, belligerent and deeply cynical Vietnam veteran whose encounter with a landmine during the war has left him minus an eye, a leg and an arm. When his drifter playboy friend Richard Bone is falsely accused of murder, Cutter sets out for revenge in his own inimitable style.

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Rumble in the Bronx
1995 Β· dir. Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.8crime Β· action Β· comedy

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

The difference: Leans harder into action than Save the Green Planet! does

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

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The Square
2008 Β· dir. Nash Edgerton
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.7crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Relentless crime in both cases

Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and Ray will steal Greg's money, burn down her house, convince Greg the money was lost in the fire and then run away together. Carla's scheme, however, doesn't go off as planned.

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Repo Man
1984 Β· dir. Alex Cox
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· science fiction

One thread runs through both: alien

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

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The Legend of Al, John and Jack
2002 Β· dir. Massimo Venier
β˜… 6.5comedy Β· crime

Comedy with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

Hapless Depression-era gangsters Al, John and Jack find out their boss wants to get rid of them and come up with a plan to sell him to the FBI, but Al's short-term memory loss could make it difficult.

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The Outfit
1973 Β· dir. John Flynn
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7crime Β· drama

Science fiction built on grit, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.

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Shanghai Knights
2003 Β· dir. David Dobkin
πŸ… 66%β˜… 6.2adventure Β· comedy Β· western

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.

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Miss Congeniality
2000 Β· dir. Donald Petrie
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.4comedy Β· crime Β· actionMaxStarz

Playful crime, and it commits to that

When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only female agent at the office, she's chosen to go undercover as the contestant from New Jersey.

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Bleeder
1999 Β· dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
β˜… 6.8drama Β· crime

Common ground: kidnapping

Two stories for the price of one: a video store clerk tries to get acquainted with a waitress; a man beats his pregnant wife, unaware that her brother is a violent racist.

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The Green Hornet
2011 Β· dir. Michel Gondry
πŸ… 45%β˜… 5.8action Β· crime Β· comedy

Science fiction with a pulse of relentlessness, in both cases

Britt Reid, the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has been, thus far, happy to lead an aimless life. After his father dies, Britt meets Kato, a resourceful company employee. Realizing that they have the talent and resources to make something of their lives, Britt and Kato join forces as costumed crime-fighters to bring down the city's most-powerful criminal, Chudnofsky.

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