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Movies that feel likeCollateral (2004)

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.

If you loved Collateral, the closest films we have are The Yellow Sea (2010), Layer Cake (2004) and Phone Booth (2003). All three share Collateral'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).

🍅 86% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Manncontemplativegrittytense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Collateral Beauty (2016)

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The Yellow Sea
2010 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 88%★ 7.3drama · thriller · crime

The same two preoccupations: police, and taxi driver

A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

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Layer Cake
2004 · dir. Matthew Vaughn
🍅 81%★ 7.2drama · thriller · crime

Both are built on the same subject: hitman

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

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Phone Booth
2003 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 72%★ 7.1thriller · crimePrime Video

Both land grit and tension at once

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Collateral

A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.

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Irreversible
2002 · dir. Gaspar Noé
🍅 60%★ 7.3drama · thriller · crime

Common ground: police

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

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Memories of Murder
2003 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
★ 8.1crime · drama · thriller

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

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We Own the Night
2007 · dir. James Gray
🍅 57%★ 6.8drama · crime · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: nightclub

A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.

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Red Rock West
1993 · dir. John Dahl
🍅 95%★ 7crime · thriller

One thread runs through both: hitman

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

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Killing Them Softly
2012 · dir. Andrew Dominik
🍅 74%★ 6.2crime · thriller

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

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Lord of War
2005 · dir. Andrew Niccol
🍅 62%★ 7.6crime · drama · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.

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A History of Violence
2005 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · thriller · crimeMax

Tense drama in both cases

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

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36th Precinct
2004 · dir. Olivier Marchal
🍅 100%★ 7.1crime · drama · thriller

Crime built on stillness, twice over

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.

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Traffic
2000 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 93%★ 7.5thriller · drama · crime

Thriller built on grit, twice over

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.

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