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Movies that feel likeThe Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

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.

If you loved The Place Beyond the Pines, the closest films we have are Monster (2003), A Touch of Sin (2013) and The Drop (2014). All three share The Place Beyond the Pines' contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Black Souls (2014).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Derek Cianfrancecontemplativegritty
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Place (2017)

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Monster
2003 · dir. Patty Jenkins
🍅 81%★ 7.3crime · drama

Common ground: motel

In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, Aileen's limited education lands her back on the corner. She's raped by a trick, who she kills. A string of murder and robbery follows that ultimately leads Aileen to becoming America's first female serial killer.

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

Contemplative where it counts, gritty underneath

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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The Drop
2014 · dir. Michaël R. Roskam
🍅 88%★ 7drama · crime

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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.

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

Crime with a pulse of grit, 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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Lawless
2012 · dir. John Hillcoat
🍅 67%★ 7.2crime · drama · western

The same preoccupation in both: corruption

The difference: Played as western first

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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

Crime built on grit, 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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Molly's Game
2017 · dir. Aaron Sorkin
🍅 82%★ 7.4drama · crimeParamount+

Both are drama through and through

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

Both play crime straight

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

Drama approached the same way

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

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3096 Days
2013 · dir. Sherry Hormann
★ 6.5drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: hostage

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.

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The Fool
2014 · dir. Yury Bykov
🍅 93%★ 7.9drama

Both are built on the same subject: corruption

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.

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