
Movies that feel likeThe Bone Collector (1999)
If you loved The Bone Collector, the closest films we have are A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) and Lucky Number Slevin (2006). All three share The Bone Collector's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Drishyam (2015).
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If The Bone Collector hit the spot, these will too

The same city underneath both: New York City
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The same mix in both: grit, then tension

Contemplative and twisty in the same breath

Gritty crime, and it commits to that
The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Bone Collector

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Both lean on stillness more than on drama


Common ground: serial killer

Crime built on grit, twice over

Tense thriller in both cases

Phillip Noyce working the same nerve twice
The difference: Sits closer to action than The Bone Collector does

Same instincts, 32 years apart
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft
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