
Movies that feel likeWe Own the Night (2007)
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).
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If We Own the Night hit the spot, these will too

Both are James Gray's work, and they rhyme

Two things both keep coming back to: gangster and cocaine

Both are built on the same subject: murder

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

The same two preoccupations: parents and children, and hospital
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

The same preoccupation in both: murder

Gritty where it counts, tense underneath


Contemplative drama in both cases

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Both lean on stillness more than on crime
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