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Movies that feel likeSicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

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

If you loved Sicario: Day of the Soldado, the closest films we have are SPL: Kill Zone (2005), Deep Cover (1992) and Tokyo Drifter (1966). All three share Sicario: Day of the Soldado's kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is One False Move (1992).

🍅 62% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Stefano Sollimakineticgrittytenseatmospheric
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SPL: Kill Zone
2005 · dir. Wilson Yip
🍅 80%★ 6.9action · crime · dramaPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: neo-noir

The difference: Leans further into drama

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

Both are built on the same subject: neo-noir

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Tokyo Drifter
1966 · dir. Seijun Suzuki
🍅 93%★ 7.1thriller · crime · action

Kinetic and gritty in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

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Suburra
2015 · dir. Stefano Sollima
🍅 90%★ 7.4crime · drama · thriller

The same hand behind both of them: Stefano Sollima

The difference: Less kinetic, more its own thing

A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.

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

Both land tension and atmosphere at once

The difference: Played as drama first

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

Common ground: shootout

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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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 43%★ 6.5action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoParamount+

Both lean on momentum more than on action

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

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Polar
2019 · dir. Jonas Åkerlund
🍅 20%★ 6.3action · crime · dramaNetflix

Gritty crime in both cases

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.

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Pusher II
2004 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 100%★ 7.3action · crime · dramaPrime Video

Thriller built on atmosphere, twice over

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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Body Heat
1981 · dir. Lawrence Kasdan
🍅 96%★ 7.4thriller · crime

Tense crime, and it commits to that

During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.

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High Sierra
1941 · dir. Raoul Walsh
🍅 92%★ 7.5crime · drama · action

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

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Scarface
1932 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 98%★ 7.7crime · action · drama

Thriller built on grit, twice over

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

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