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Movies that feel likeThe Drop (2014)

Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.

If you loved The Drop, the closest films we have are Black Souls (2014), A Touch of Sin (2013) and Leviathan (2014). All three share The Drop's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is R (2010).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michaël R. Roskamcontemplativegritty
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Kino Film Collection

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If The Drop hit the spot, these will too

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Black Souls
2014 · dir. Francesco Munzi
🍅 89%★ 6.8crime · drama

Both land stillness and grit at once

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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A Touch of Sin
2013 · dir. Jia Zhangke
🍅 95%★ 7.1crime · drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village. A migrant discovers the possibilities of owning a firearm. A receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one job to the next.

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Leviathan
2014 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
🍅 97%★ 7.6drama · crime

Gritty crime in both cases

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

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R
2010 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 91%★ 7.1crime · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Imprisoned for violent assault, Rune is placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations.

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Gomorrah
2008 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 90%★ 7drama · crimePrime Video

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.

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Frozen River
2008 · dir. Courtney Hunt
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · crime

Both working the same drama territory

A financially strapped mother joins a Mohawk woman to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.

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Loving Pablo
2017 · dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
🍅 33%★ 6.4crime · drama

Crime in the same key

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

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My Name Ain't Johnny
2008 · dir. Mauro Lima
★ 7.2crime · drama

Both know what they want from drama

The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.

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7 Prisoners
2021 · dir. Alexandre Moratto
🍅 98%★ 7.1drama · crimeNetflix

The crime is handled with the same confidence

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.

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Lawless
2012 · dir. John Hillcoat
🍅 67%★ 7.2crime · drama · western

Common ground: church

The difference: Sits closer to western than The Drop does

In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.

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A Prophet
2009 · dir. Jacques Audiard
🍅 96%★ 7.8crime · drama

The same drama instincts

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

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Little Caesar
1931 · dir. Mervyn LeRoy
🍅 96%★ 7.2drama · crime

Common ground in both: robbery and crime boss

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

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