
Movies that feel likeA Simple Plan (1998)
If you loved A Simple Plan, the closest films we have are The Yards (2000), Dogville (2003) and Pusher 3 (2005). All three share A Simple Plan's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Red Rock West (1993).
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If A Simple Plan hit the spot, these will too

Gritty and contemplative in the same breath
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

Common ground: friendship
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than A Simple Plan does

Crime with a pulse of warmth, in both cases
The difference: Trades the tension of A Simple Plan for an angle of its own

Both lean on tension more than on drama

Gritty thriller in both cases

Both are built on the same subject: bag of money

Crime built on stillness, twice over

Tense drama, and it commits to that

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases


Both lean on stillness more than on drama
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft
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