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Movies that feel likeSin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

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

If you loved Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, the closest films we have are Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), SPL: Kill Zone (2005) and Deep Cover (1992). All three share Sin City: A Dame to Kill For'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 Tokyo Drifter (1966).

🍅 43% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Rodriguezkineticgrittytensebleakatmospheric
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018 · dir. Stefano Sollima
🍅 62%★ 7.1action · crime · thrillerStarz

Common ground: neo-noir

The difference: Lighter on bleakness

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

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SPL: Kill Zone
2005 · dir. Wilson Yip
🍅 80%★ 6.9action · crime · dramaPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: neo-noir

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

The same preoccupation in both: murder

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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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El Mariachi
1993 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 91%★ 6.8action · crime · thriller

Robert Rodriguez directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans further into western

El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.

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

Gritty and tense in the same breath

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

One thread runs through both: murder

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

The same mix in both: momentum, then atmosphere

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

Both lean on momentum more than on action

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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The Roundup: No Way Out
2023 · dir. Lee Sang-yong
🍅 100%★ 6.6action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: detective

Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.

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Sexy Beast
2001 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 87%★ 7.3crime · thriller · drama

Gritty crime in both cases

Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.

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

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
2016 · dir. Edward Zwick
🍅 37%★ 6.2action · thriller · crimePrime VideoParamount+

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

Years after resigning command of an elite military police unit, the nomadic, righter-of-wrongs Reacher is drawn back into the life he left behind when his friend and successor, Major Susan Turner is framed for espionage. Reacher will stop at nothing to prove her innocence and to expose the real perpetrators behind the killings of his former soldiers.

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