
Movies that feel like21 Grams (2003)
If you loved 21 Grams, the closest films we have are Hard Candy (2006), Side Effects (2013) and Babel (2006). All three share 21 Grams' contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Charley Varrick (1973).
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If 21 Grams hit the spot, these will too

Contemplative and gritty in the same breath

Both land tension and melancholy at once

Alejandro G. Iñárritu working the same nerve twice
The difference: Trades the grit of 21 Grams for an angle of its own

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Both are built on the same subject: new mexico

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

The same preoccupation in both: grief

Thriller built on tension, twice over
The difference: Sits closer to western than 21 Grams does


Both keep coming back to the same thing: suicide attempt

One thread runs through both: sadness
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