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Movies that feel like Side Effects (2013)

If you loved Side Effects, the closest films we have are Good Time (2017), Hyena (2015) and We Own the Night (2007). All three share Side Effects' tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Sundance Now and Midnight Pulp and others, checked against today's data.

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

πŸ… 82% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Steven Soderberghtensegrittycontemplative
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Good Time
2017 Β· dir. Josh Safdie
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.3crime Β· thriller Β· drama

New York City shapes both of them

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.

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Hyena
2015 Β· dir. Gerard Johnson
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.2crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: murder and drugs

Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?

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We Own the Night
2007 Β· dir. James Gray
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.8drama Β· crime Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

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A Time to Kill
1996 Β· dir. Joel Schumacher
πŸ… 66%β˜… 7.5crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: lawyer

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

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The Yellow Sea
2010 Β· dir. Na Hong-jin
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.3drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Tense where it counts, gritty underneath

A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

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The Devil All the Time
2020 Β· dir. Antonio Campos
πŸ… 65%β˜… 7.1crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Contemplative thriller in both cases

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

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Layer Cake
2004 Β· dir. Matthew Vaughn
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.2drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Crime built on tension, twice over

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019 Β· dir. Vince Gilligan
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.3crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Common ground: drugs

In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.

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Neighboring Sounds
2012 Β· dir. Kleber MendonΓ§a Filho
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· drama Β· crime

Gritty drama, and it commits to that

An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.

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The Silence
2010 Β· dir. Baran bo Odar
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7crime Β· thriller Β· drama

Thriller with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

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Suburra
2015 Β· dir. Stefano Sollima
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.4crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Both lean on tension more than on crime

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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Easy Money
2010 Β· dir. Daniel Espinosa
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.7drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Gritty drama in both cases

When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.

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