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Movies that feel like The Long Good Friday (1980)

If you loved The Long Good Friday, the closest films we have are Night Moves (1975), One False Move (1992) and Le Samouraï (1967). All three share The Long Good Friday's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on TCM, Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Mackenziegrittytensecontemplativeatmospheric

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: His Girl Friday (1940) · Freaky Friday (2003)

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Night Moves
1975 · dir. Arthur Penn
🍅 78%7.1thriller · crime · drama

Both built around neo-noir

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

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One False Move
1992 · dir. Carl Franklin
🍅 93%7.1crime · drama · thriller

Neo-noir sits at the heart of each

Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.

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Le Samouraï
1967 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 92%8crime · thriller · drama

Gritty and tense in the same breath

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

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Touch of Evil
1958 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 96%8crime · thriller · drama

Both circle gangster and car bomb

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1950s show

A border-town bombing draws Mexican investigator Miguel Vargas into a corruption-ridden police investigation led by crooked captain Hank Quinlan, setting off a deadly struggle over power, justice, and truth.

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Shoot the Piano Player
1960 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 90%7.4drama · thriller · crime

Both land stillness and atmosphere at once

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

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Le Doulos
1962 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 96%7.7drama · thriller · crime

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?

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Blast of Silence
1961 · dir. Allen Baron
🍅 83%7.4crime · drama · thriller

Tense thriller in both cases

A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.

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Odd Man Out
1947 · dir. Carol Reed
🍅 100%7.6crime · drama · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: ira (irish republican army)

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

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The Rivals of Amziah King
2026 · dir. Andrew Patterson
🍅 89%7.7crime · drama · thriller

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Deep within the backwoods of rural Oklahoma, charismatic and musically gifted Amziah King herds a bluegrass-playing band of misfits while overseeing the premier honey-making operation in town. When Amziah’s estranged foster daughter unexpectedly returns, Amziah leaps at the possibility to renew connection and create a family business. But the honey game is ruthless, and Amziah’s rivals threaten to destroy everything he has built.

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Jackie Brown
1997 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 88%7.5crime · drama · thriller

Atmospheric crime, and it commits to that

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

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Point Blank
1967 · dir. John Boorman
🍅 93%7.3crime · thriller · drama

Both trade on grit more than on being thriller

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

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Sexy Beast
2001 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 87%7.3crime · thriller · drama

Both keep circling back to gangster

Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.

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