Movies that feel likeUncut Gems (2019)

Name: Uncut Gems
Director: Josh Safdie
Genre: drama, thriller, crime
Released: 2019

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

If you loved Uncut Gems, the closest films we have are Fargo (1996), Natural Born Killers (1994) and Cop Car (2015). All three share Uncut Gems' tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Headhunters (2011).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Josh Safdiecontemplative tense gritty darkly funny

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If Uncut Gems hit the spot, these will too

Fargo

1996 · dir. Joel Coen

🍅 95%★ 8.1crime · drama · thrillerHulu

Common ground in both: dark comedy and money

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Jerry Lundegaard is a small-town Minnesota car salesman deeply in debt and willing to do almost anything to get out. Police chief Marge Gunderson discovers a string of violent crimes as Jerry's schemes spiral out of control.

Natural Born Killers

1994 · dir. Oliver Stone

🍅 52%★ 7.2crime · thriller · drama

Both land stillness and tension at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Cop Car

2015 · dir. Jon Watts

🍅 82%★ 6.3crime · thrillerPrime Video

The same mix in both: grit, then dark humor

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Uncut Gems

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.

American Psycho

2000 · dir. Mary Harron

🍅 69%★ 7.6thriller · drama · crimePrime VideoHulu

The same city underneath both: New York City

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

The Killer

2023 · dir. David Fincher

🍅 85%★ 6.7crime · thrillerNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: dark comedy

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Uncut Gems does

After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

Headhunters

2011 · dir. Morten Tyldum

🍅 93%★ 7.5thriller · crime · actionPrime Video

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to action than Uncut Gems does

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

Good Time

2017 · dir. Benny Safdie

🍅 91%★ 7.3crime · thriller · dramaRent or buy

Drama built on stillness, twice over

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.

Lethal Weapon 3

1992 · dir. Richard Donner

🍅 63%★ 6.7action · thriller · crime

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

2019 · dir. Vince Gilligan

🍅 92%★ 7.3crime · drama · thrillerNetflix

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.

The Guilty

2018 · dir. Gustav Möller

🍅 98%★ 7.5thriller · drama · crimePrime Video

Tense thriller in both cases

Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.

The Traitor

2019 · dir. Marco Bellocchio

🍅 86%★ 7.1drama · crime · thrillerRent or buy

A 2010s answer to the same itch

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.