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Movies that feel likeDjango (1966)

A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.

If you loved Django, the closest films we have are The Way of the Dragon (1972), Duck, You Sucker (1971) and Branded to Kill (1967). All three share Django's gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sergio Corbuccikineticgritty
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The Way of the Dragon
1972 · dir. Bruce Lee
🍅 88%★ 7.1action · crime

Kinetic where it counts, gritty underneath

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Django does

After a Chinese restaurant in Rome is threatened by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to acquire the property, the owner recruits a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to help them defend their business.

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Duck, You Sucker
1971 · dir. Sergio Leone
🍅 92%★ 7.5westernPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: spaghetti western

The difference: Trades the momentum of Django for an angle of its own

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

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Branded to Kill
1967 · dir. Seijun Suzuki
🍅 100%★ 7.2thriller · crime · action

The same preoccupation in both: hitman

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

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Tombstone
1993 · dir. George P. Cosmatos
🍅 76%★ 7.8western · action

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 · dir. Kinji Fukasaku
★ 7.4crime · action · drama

Gritty western in both cases

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

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Magnum Force
1973 · dir. Ted Post
🍅 69%★ 7.2drama · crime · action

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.

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Bob le Flambeur
1956 · dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
🍅 97%★ 7.5drama · action · crime

Both lean on grit more than on western

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · dir. John Ford
🍅 95%★ 8.1western

Western in the same key

Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.

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Chocolate
2008 · dir. Prachya Pinkaew
🍅 71%★ 6.9action · crime

Action of the same temperament

Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.

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Enforcement
2020 · dir. Anders Ølholm
🍅 82%★ 6.5action · crimeRent or buy

Both are action through and through

The exact details of what took place while Talib Ben Hassi was in police custody remain unclear. Police officers Jens and Mike are on routine patrol in Svalegården's ghetto when news of Talib's death comes in over the radio, igniting uncontrollable, pent-up rage in the ghetto's youth, who lust for revenge. Suddenly, the two officers find themselves fair game and must fight tooth and claw to find a way out.

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Bullitt
1968 · dir. Peter Yates
🍅 98%★ 7.4action · crime · thriller

Both working the same action territory

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.

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Fort Apache
1948 · dir. John Ford
🍅 100%★ 7.4western

Both know what they want from western

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

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