
Movies that feel likeDeliverance (1972)
If you loved Deliverance, the closest films we have are Operation Condor (1991), Caliber 9 (1972) and The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973). All three share Deliverance's tense and gritty 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 Deliverance hit the spot, these will too

Both are built on the same subject: wilderness
The difference: Trades the stillness of Deliverance for an angle of its own

Tense and gritty in the same breath
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Deliverance does

Contemplative drama in both cases
The difference: Leans harder into crime than Deliverance does

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

John Boorman working the same nerve twice

Epic thriller, and it commits to that

Both keep coming back to the same thing: rape

The same preoccupation in both: rape
The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1950s show


Tense adventure, and it commits to that

Drama built on stillness, twice over
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