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Movies that feel like7 Prisoners (2021)

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.

If you loved 7 Prisoners, the closest films we have are Frozen River (2008), A Touch of Sin (2013) and Black Souls (2014). All three share 7 Prisoners' contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alexandre Morattocontemplativegritty
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Frozen River
2008 · dir. Courtney Hunt
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: human trafficking

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

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

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

Crime built on grit, twice over

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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★ 7.4documentary · crimeRent or buy

Crime approached the same way

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than 7 Prisoners does

TPB AFK is a documentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution with their hobby homepage The Pirate Bay. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid hacker libertarian – get the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? TPB AFK explores what Hollywood’s most hated pirates go through on a personal level.

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Into the Abyss
2011 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 92%★ 7.3documentary · crime

Both are crime through and through

We do not know when and how we will die. Death Row inmates do. Werner Herzog embarks on a dialogue with Death Row inmates, asks questions about life and death and looks deep into these individuals, their stories, their crimes.

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Green Fish
1997 · dir. Lee Chang-dong
★ 7drama · crime

Both play drama straight

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

Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.

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First Cow
2020 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 95%★ 7.1drama · westernRent or buy

Cut from the same drama cloth

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.

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

Drama in the same key

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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Amanda Knox
2016 · dir. Rod Blackhurst
🍅 82%★ 6.9documentary · crimeNetflix

The same crime instincts

This gripping, atmospheric documentary recounts the infamous trial, conviction and eventual acquittal of Seattle native Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of a British exchange student in Italy.

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