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Movies that feel like Suburra (2015)

If you loved Suburra, the closest films we have are Black Souls (2014), The Devil All the Time (2020) and Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 (2012). All three share Suburra's gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 4 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 90% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Stefano Sollimagrittycontemplativetense
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Black Souls
2014 Β· dir. Francesco Munzi
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.8crime Β· drama

One thread runs through both: mafia

The difference: Not nearly as tense as Suburra

A former narcotics smuggler, now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills, is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son.

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

Both are built on the same subject: church

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
2012 Β· dir. Anurag Kashyap
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8.2action Β· thriller Β· crime

Common ground: mafia

The difference: None of the stillness Suburra is built on

In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

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

Gritty and contemplative in the same breath

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

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

Both lean on tension more than on crime

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

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

Thriller built on stillness, twice over

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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The Traitor
2019 Β· dir. Marco Bellocchio
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.1drama Β· crime Β· thriller

Tense crime, and it commits to that

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

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Holy Spider
2022 Β· dir. Ali Abbasi
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.3thriller Β· drama Β· crime

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

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The Wild Goose Lake
2019 Β· dir. Diao Yinan
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.7crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Contemplative thriller in both cases

A gangster ends up making a mistake that causes every gun on both sides of the law to point at him. While on the run, he comes across a mysterious woman who might get him out of trouble or make things worse.

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Miller's Crossing
1990 Β· dir. Joel Coen
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: corruption

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1990s show

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

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

Crime built on tension, twice over

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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