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Movies that feel likeLoving Pablo (2017)

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.

If you loved Loving Pablo, the closest films we have are A Touch of Sin (2013), Black Souls (2014) and 7 Prisoners (2021). All three share Loving Pablo's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is R (2010).

🍅 33% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Fernando León de Aranoagrittycontemplative
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Kino Film Collection

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A Touch of Sin
2013 · dir. Jia Zhangke
🍅 95%★ 7.1crime · drama

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

Both land grit and stillness at once

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

Both lean on grit more than on crime

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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Leviathan
2014 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
🍅 97%★ 7.6drama · crime

Contemplative drama in both cases

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.

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

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🍅 54%★ 6.7drama · crimeNetflix

Common ground: biography

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

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3096 Days
2013 · dir. Sherry Hormann
★ 6.5drama

One thread runs through both: a true story

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.

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

Both know what they want from crime

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

The same drama instincts

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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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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Amanda Knox
2016 · dir. Rod Blackhurst
🍅 82%★ 6.9documentary · crimeNetflix

Crime in the same key

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than Loving Pablo does

This gripping, atmospheric documentary recounts the infamous trial, conviction and eventual acquittal of Seattle native Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of a British exchange student in Italy.

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