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Movies that feel likeThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

If you loved Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the closest films we have are Leviathan (2014), Molly's Game (2017) and A Prophet (2009). All three share Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martin McDonaghgrittycontemplative
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Leviathan
2014 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
🍅 97%★ 7.6drama · crime

One stubborn citizen against a small town's corrupt machinery

The difference: Crushing Russian fatalism — no dark laughs to cut the despair

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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Molly's Game
2017 · dir. Aaron Sorkin
🍅 82%★ 7.4drama · crimeParamount+

A ferociously stubborn woman refusing to be defined by powerful men

The difference: Slick Sorkin patter — glamour and wit, not small-town grief

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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A Prophet
2009 · dir. Jacques Audiard
🍅 96%★ 7.8crime · drama

A moral education conducted entirely inside a brutal system

The difference: Prison-bound and patient; anger simmers instead of erupting

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

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The Place Beyond the Pines
2013 · dir. Derek Cianfrance
🍅 79%★ 7.3drama · crimeRent or buy

Bad choices echoing through a small community across years

The difference: A solemn triptych — earnest where McDonagh is savage and funny

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.

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

Quiet neighborhood people carrying more violence than they show

The difference: A slow-burn mob mood piece, light on the gallows humor

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

Ordinary people pushed by humiliation until violence erupts

The difference: Four cold vignettes across China — distance replaces intimacy

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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7 Prisoners
2021 · dir. Alexandre Moratto
🍅 98%★ 7.1drama · crimeNetflix

A moral maze where survival keeps demanding compromise

The difference: Sober realism throughout — no catharsis and no comedy

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.

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Loving Pablo
2017 · dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
🍅 33%★ 6.4crime · drama

Violence warping everyone who gets close to it

The difference: A shallow cartel biopic — the weakest match on this shelf

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

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🍅 54%★ 6.7drama · crimeNetflix

A woman reckoning with a crime that rewrote her whole life

The difference: True-crime restraint — no rage, no billboards, no bite

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

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

The same mix in both: grit, then stillness

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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American Gangster
2007 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 81%★ 7.8drama · crimeApple TV+Starz

Gritty crime in both cases

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

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Freedom Writers
2007 · dir. Richard LaGravenese
🍅 69%★ 7.6crime · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

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