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Movies that feel like The Unjust (2010)

If you loved The Unjust, the closest films we have are Killing Them Softly (2012), Legend (2015) and Phone Booth (2003). All three share The Unjust's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Lionsgate+ Amazon Channels, fuboTV and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

An honest cop has to compromise with his principles when he is told to find a scapegoat for a high-profile serial killer case in exchange for a big promotion.

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Killing Them Softly
2012 · dir. Andrew Dominik
🍅 74%6.2crime · thriller

The same mix in both: grit, then tension

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

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Legend
2015 · dir. Brian Helgeland
🍅 60%6.9crime · thriller

Crime built on grit, twice over

Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

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Phone Booth
2003 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 72%7.1thriller · crime

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.

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No Country for Old Men
2007 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 93%8.2crime · thriller · western

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Plays it as western more than The Unjust does

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

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Girl in the Basement
2021 · dir. Elisabeth Röhm
6.3thriller · crime · tv movie

Both trade on tension more than on being thriller

Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.

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Caliber 9
1972 · dir. Fernando Di Leo
7.4crime · thriller

The same crime instincts

The difference: 38 years apart, and the 1970s show

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

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Now You See Me 2
2016 · dir. Jon M. Chu
🍅 33%6.4crime · thriller

Both are thriller through and through

One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.

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Ocean's Twelve
2004 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 55%6.5thriller · crime

Crime approached the same way

Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history and splitting the $160 million take, each of the infamous Ocean's crew have tried to go straight, lay low and live a legit life... but that's proven to be a challenge. Casino owner Terry Benedict demands that Danny Ocean return the money, plus millions more in interest. Unable to come up the cash, the crew is forced to come together to pull off another series of heists, this time in Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.

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Cop Car
2015 · dir. Jon Watts
🍅 82%6.3crime · thriller

Cut from the same thriller cloth

Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.

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Blue Ruin
2014 · dir. Jeremy Saulnier
🍅 96%7.1crime · thriller

Crime approached the same way

When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

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Ocean's Eleven
2001 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 83%7.7thriller · crime

The same thriller instincts

Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.

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King of New York
1990 · dir. Abel Ferrara
🍅 74%6.9thriller · crime

Both are crime through and through

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

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