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Movies that feel like3096 Days (2013)

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.

If you loved 3096 Days, the closest films we have are Silenced (2011), A Touch of Sin (2013) and The Fool (2014). All three share 3096 Days' contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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

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Silenced
2011 · dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk
🍅 100%★ 8dramaNetflix

Both are working the same pair: child abuse, rape

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

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

One thread runs through both: a true story

The difference: Sits closer to crime than 3096 Days does

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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The Fool
2014 · dir. Yury Bykov
🍅 93%★ 7.9drama

Both land stillness and grit at once

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.

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Frozen River
2008 · dir. Courtney Hunt
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · crime

Contemplative drama in both cases

A financially strapped mother joins a Mohawk woman to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.

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

Both lean on grit more than on drama

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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Evil
2003 · dir. Mikael Håfström
🍅 68%★ 7.7drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.

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

Common ground: a true story

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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R
2010 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 91%★ 7.1crime · drama

Both work the same grit

Imprisoned for violent assault, Rune is placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations.

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Leviathan
2014 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
🍅 97%★ 7.6drama · crime

Both are drama through and through

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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The Rider
2018 · dir. Chloé Zhao
🍅 97%★ 7.4drama · westernRent or buy

Drama of the same temperament

Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.

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My Name Ain't Johnny
2008 · dir. Mauro Lima
★ 7.2crime · drama

Both play drama straight

The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.

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

The drama is handled with the same confidence

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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