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Movies that feel likeBlacKkKlansman (2018)

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

If you loved BlacKkKlansman, the closest films we have are Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Just Mercy (2019) and Black Mass (2015). All three share BlacKkKlansman's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Serpico (1973).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Spike Leegrittycontemplativeepic
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Apple TV

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Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%★ 7.5crime · history · dramaApple TV+

Two things both keep coming back to: a true story and racism

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

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Just Mercy
2019 · dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
🍅 85%★ 7.6drama · crime · history

Common ground: a true story

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

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Black Mass
2015 · dir. Scott Cooper
🍅 74%★ 6.8drama · crime · history

Gritty and contemplative in the same breath

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

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Spotlight
2015 · dir. Tom McCarthy
🍅 97%★ 8.1drama · history

Both lean on scale more than on drama

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

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All the Money in the World
2017 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 79%★ 6.8crime · history · thrillerRent or buy

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than BlacKkKlansman does

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

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Gangs of New York
2002 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 72%★ 7.5drama · history · crimeParamount+Starz

History with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

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J. Edgar
2011 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 44%★ 6.5drama · crime · history

One thread runs through both: biography

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.

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Serpico
1973 · dir. Sidney Lumet
🍅 93%★ 7.7crime · drama · history

The same preoccupation in both: undercover cop

The difference: 45 years apart, and the 1970s show

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

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The Irishman
2019 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 95%★ 7.8crime · drama · historyNetflix

Epic crime in both cases

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

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The Last Duel
2021 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 85%★ 7.3drama · historyRent or buy

Drama built on grit, twice over

King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.

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🍅 54%★ 6.7drama · crimeNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: biography

The difference: Trades the scale of BlacKkKlansman for an angle of its own

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

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The Revenant
2015 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 78%★ 8western · drama · adventureMax

Both lean on stillness more than on history

The difference: Leans harder into western than BlacKkKlansman does

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

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