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Movies that feel likeThe Young and the Damned (1950)

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

If you loved The Young and the Damned, the closest films we have are The Wrong Man (1956), Pickpocket (1959) and Fort Apache (1948). All three share The Young and the Damned's gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Blue Collar (1978).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Luis Buñuelcontemplativegritty
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The Wrong Man poster
The Wrong Man
1956 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 93%★ 7.4crime · dramaMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white

In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

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Pickpocket
1959 · dir. Robert Bresson
🍅 93%★ 7.5crime · drama

One thread runs through both: black and white

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only friend, Jacques, and his mother's neighbor Jeanne, Michel teams up with a couple of petty thieves in order to improve his craft. With a police inspector keeping an eye on him, Michel also tries to get a straight job, but the temptation to steal is hard to resist.

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Fort Apache
1948 · dir. John Ford
🍅 100%★ 7.4western

Gritty drama in both cases

The difference: Trades the stillness of The Young and the Damned for an angle of its own

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

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The Public Enemy
1931 · dir. William A. Wellman
🍅 100%★ 7.6crime · drama

Both are built on the same subject: juvenile delinquent

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

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The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 · dir. William A. Wellman
🍅 90%★ 8western

Crime built on grit, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to western than The Young and the Damned does

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

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Little Caesar
1931 · dir. Mervyn LeRoy
🍅 96%★ 7.2drama · crime

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949 · dir. John Ford
🍅 91%★ 7.2drama · western

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · dir. John Ford
🍅 95%★ 8.1western

Both lean on grit more than on drama

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.

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Stagecoach
1939 · dir. John Ford
🍅 100%★ 7.8westernPrime VideoMax

A 1930s cousin in spirit

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

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Pixote
1980 · dir. Héctor Babenco
🍅 94%★ 7.9crime · drama

Crime built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

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

Drama in the same key

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

Both play crime straight

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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