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Movies that feel likeWe Own the Night (2007)

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

If you loved We Own the Night, the closest films we have are The Yards (2000), Layer Cake (2004) and Hyena (2015). All three share We Own the Night's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Silence (2010).

πŸ… 57% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. James Graycontemplativegrittytense
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The Yards
2000 Β· dir. James Gray
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.4crime Β· drama Β· thrillerParamount+

Both are James Gray's work, and they rhyme

In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.

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Layer Cake
2004 Β· dir. Matthew Vaughn
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.2drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Two things both keep coming back to: gangster and cocaine

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

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Hyena
2015 Β· dir. Gerard Johnson
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.2crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: murder

Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?

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Killing Them Softly
2012 Β· dir. Andrew Dominik
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.2crime Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: gangster

The difference: Trades the stillness of We Own the Night for an angle of its own

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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John Q
2002 Β· dir. Nick Cassavetes
πŸ… 26%β˜… 7.1drama Β· thriller Β· crimeStarz

The same two preoccupations: parents and children, and hospital

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

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The Yellow Sea
2010 Β· dir. Na Hong-jin
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.3drama Β· thriller Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: murder

A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

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The Unjust
2010 Β· dir. Ryoo Seung-wan
β˜… 6.5crime Β· thrillerNetflix

Gritty where it counts, tense underneath

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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Red Rock West
1993 Β· dir. John Dahl
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7crime Β· thriller

Crime built on grit, twice over

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

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Easy Money
2010 Β· dir. Daniel Espinosa
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.7drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Contemplative drama in both cases

When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.

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The Silence
2010 Β· dir. Baran bo Odar
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.9crime Β· thriller Β· drama

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

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36th Precinct
2004 Β· dir. Olivier Marchal
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.1crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.

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Neighboring Sounds
2012 Β· dir. Kleber MendonΓ§a Filho
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· drama Β· crime

Both lean on stillness more than on crime

An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.

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