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Movies that feel likeAmanda Knox (2016)

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.

If you loved Amanda Knox, the closest films we have are TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard (2013), Into the Abyss (2011) and The Thin Blue Line (1988). All three share Amanda Knox'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 Black Souls (2014).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rod Blackhurstcontemplativegritty
6 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Criterion Channel · Kino Film Collection

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TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard poster
★ 7.4documentary · crimeRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: trial

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

Contemplative where it counts, gritty underneath

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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The Thin Blue Line
1988 · dir. Errol Morris
🍅 100%★ 7.9crime · documentary

Common ground: murder

The difference: 28 years apart, and the 1980s show

One night in November 1976, after his car breaks down on a road outside Dallas, Randall Dale Adams accepts a ride from teenager David Harris. Harris is driving a stolen vehicle and, later that night, when Dallas police officer Robert Wood pulls the car over to check its headlights, he is shot and killed. A jury believes Adams is the killer, but stylized reenactments and interviews with key figures, conflicting testimonies and evidence are presented to argue that Adams was framed by a corrupt justice system, ultimately leading to his exoneration.

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

Contemplative crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Amanda Knox does

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

Documentary with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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

Crime built on stillness, twice over

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

Both lean on grit more than on documentary

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

Both are crime through and through

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

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

Crime of the same temperament

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

Both play crime straight

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

The same crime instincts

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

Contemporaries, and it shows

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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