
Movies that feel likeThe Killing (1956)
If you loved The Killing, the closest films we have are Rififi (1955), Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Killer's Kiss (1955). All three share The Killing'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 Odds Against Tomorrow (1959).
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If The Killing hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

Both keep coming back to the same thing: heist

The same preoccupation in both: corruption

Stanley Kubrick working the same nerve twice
The difference: Takes it somewhere less playful than The Killing does

One thread runs through both: gangster
The difference: Trades the stillness of The Killing for an angle of its own

Both are built on the same subject: gangster

Common ground: robbery

Both land grit and tension at once

Contemplative crime in both cases

One thread runs through both: heist

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases
The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

Drama built on tension, twice over

Both lean on stillness more than on crime
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