
Movies that feel likeBlood Simple (1985)
If you loved Blood Simple, the closest films we have are Miller's Crossing (1990), Red Rock West (1993) and The Hit (1984). All three share Blood Simple'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 Across 110th Street (1972).
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If Blood Simple hit the spot, these will too

Joel Coen working the same nerve twice

One thread runs through both: money
The difference: Easier on the stillness than Blood Simple

Both land grit and stillness at once

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Gritty drama in both cases

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

Crime built on tension, twice over

Gritty drama, and it commits to that

From the 1990s, and it lands the same way
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Both lean on tension more than on crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: double cross
The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

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