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Movies that feel like The Drop (2014)

If you loved The Drop, the closest films we have are The Place Beyond the Pines (2013), Molly's Game (2017) and Frozen River (2008). All three share The Drop's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium and Paramount+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michaël R. Roskamcontemplativegritty

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The Place Beyond the Pines
2013 · dir. Derek Cianfrance
🍅 79%7.3drama · crime

Both land stillness and grit at once

A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

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Molly's Game
2017 · dir. Aaron Sorkin
🍅 82%7.4drama · crime

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

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

Crime built on grit, twice over

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

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 · dir. Martin McDonagh
🍅 90%8.1crime · drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

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American Gangster
2007 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 81%7.8drama · crime

Both trade on grit more than on being crime

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

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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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Blow
2001 · dir. Ted Demme
🍅 56%7.5crime · drama

Cut from the same crime cloth

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.

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Casino
1995 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 79%8.2crime · drama

Both are drama through and through

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

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Blue Collar
1978 · dir. Paul Schrader
🍅 96%7.5drama · crime

The same two preoccupations: robbery, and blackmail

The difference: 36 years apart, and the 1970s show

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.

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GoodFellas
1990 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%8.7drama · crime

Crime approached the same way

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

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Straight Time
1978 · dir. Ulu Grosbard
🍅 82%7.4crime · drama

Both built around robbery

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.

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The Wizard of Lies
2017 · dir. Barry Levinson
🍅 73%6.8crime · drama · tv movie

Both are drama through and through

The difference: Leans tv movie where The Drop does not

A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.

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