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Movies that feel likeLeviathan (2014)

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

If you loved Leviathan, the closest films we have are A Touch of Sin (2013), Black Souls (2014) and R (2010). All three share Leviathan's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is My Name Ain't Johnny (2008).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Andrey Zvyagintsevcontemplativegritty
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A Touch of Sin
2013 · dir. Jia Zhangke
🍅 95%★ 7.1crime · drama

Contemplative where it counts, gritty underneath

Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village. A migrant discovers the possibilities of owning a firearm. A receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one job to the next.

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Black Souls
2014 · dir. Francesco Munzi
🍅 89%★ 6.8crime · drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A former narcotics smuggler, now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills, is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son.

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R
2010 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 91%★ 7.1crime · drama

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

Imprisoned for violent assault, Rune is placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the prison's parallel world of rules, honor, and obligations.

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My Name Ain't Johnny
2008 · dir. Mauro Lima
★ 7.2crime · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.

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Frozen River
2008 · dir. Courtney Hunt
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · crime

Both lean on grit more than on crime

A financially strapped mother joins a Mohawk woman to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.

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7 Prisoners
2021 · dir. Alexandre Moratto
🍅 98%★ 7.1drama · crimeNetflix

The same drama instincts

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.

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Loving Pablo
2017 · dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
🍅 33%★ 6.4crime · drama

Both working the same crime territory

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

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The Fool
2014 · dir. Yury Bykov
🍅 93%★ 7.9drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.

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Gomorrah
2008 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 90%★ 7drama · crimePrime Video

Both are crime through and through

An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.

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★ 7.4documentary · crimeRent or buy

Crime approached the same way

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than Leviathan does

TPB AFK is a documentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution with their hobby homepage The Pirate Bay. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid hacker libertarian – get the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? TPB AFK explores what Hollywood’s most hated pirates go through on a personal level.

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Silenced
2011 · dir. Hwang Dong-hyuk
🍅 100%★ 8dramaNetflix

Drama in the same key

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

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A Prophet
2009 · dir. Jacques Audiard
🍅 96%★ 7.8crime · drama

Both know what they want from drama

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

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