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Movies that feel likeGood Time (2017)

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.

If you loved Good Time, the closest films we have are Uncut Gems (2019), We Own the Night (2007) and The Secret Agent (2025). All three share Good Time'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 Hyena (2015).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Benny Safdiegrittytensecontemplative
8 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu

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Uncut Gems
2019 · dir. Benny Safdie
🍅 91%★ 7.4drama · thriller · crimeRent or buy

Benny Safdie working the same nerve twice

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

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

The same city underneath both: New York City

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

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The Secret Agent
2025 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 98%★ 7.2thriller · drama · crimeHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: life on the run

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

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Hyena
2015 · dir. Gerard Johnson
🍅 78%★ 6.2crime · drama · thriller

Common ground: drugs

Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?

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The Guilty
2018 · dir. Gustav Möller
🍅 98%★ 7.5thriller · drama · crimePrime Video

Gritty and tense in the same breath

Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.

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Suburra
2015 · dir. Stefano Sollima
🍅 90%★ 7.4crime · drama · thriller

Contemplative crime in both cases

A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.

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Legend
2015 · dir. Brian Helgeland
🍅 60%★ 6.9crime · thriller

Thriller built on grit, twice over

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Good Time

Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

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The Traitor
2019 · dir. Marco Bellocchio
🍅 86%★ 7.1drama · crime · thrillerRent or buy

Tense drama, and it commits to that

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
2019 · dir. Vince Gilligan
🍅 92%★ 7.3crime · drama · thrillerNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: drugs

In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.

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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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Shoplifters
2018 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 99%★ 7.9drama · crime · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family.

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The Unjust
2010 · dir. Ryoo Seung-wan
★ 6.5crime · thrillerNetflix

Tense drama in both cases

An honest cop has to compromise with his principles when he is told to find a scapegoat for a high-profile serial killer case in exchange for a big promotion.

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