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Movies that feel likePusher II (2004)

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

If you loved Pusher II, the closest films we have are SPL: Kill Zone (2005), A Colt is My Passport (1967) and Animal Kingdom (2010). All three share Pusher II'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 Force of Evil (1950).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Nicolas Winding Refnkineticgrittycontemplativeatmospheric
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Pusher (1996) · Pusher 3 (2005)

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SPL: Kill Zone
2005 · dir. Wilson Yip
🍅 80%★ 6.9action · crime · dramaPrime Video

The same mix in both: momentum, then grit

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Pusher II does

Chan, an articulate senior detective nearing the end of his career, is taking care of the daughter of a witness killed by ruthless crime lord Po. Martial arts expert Ma is set to take over as head of the crime unit, replacing Chan who wants an early retirement.

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A Colt is My Passport
1967 · dir. Takashi Nomura
★ 7.4action · crime · drama

Contemplative where it counts, atmospheric underneath

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

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Animal Kingdom
2010 · dir. David Michôd
🍅 94%★ 7.2crime · drama

Gritty crime, and it commits to that

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

Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.

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Deep Cover
1992 · dir. Bill Duke
🍅 87%★ 7action · thriller · crime

One thread runs through both: drugs

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Pusher II does

Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.

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High Sierra
1941 · dir. Raoul Walsh
🍅 92%★ 7.5crime · drama · action

Both keep coming back to the same thing: prison

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

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The Grifters
1990 · dir. Stephen Frears
🍅 92%★ 6.8crime · drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

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Polar
2019 · dir. Jonas Åkerlund
🍅 20%★ 6.3action · crime · dramaNetflix

Both lean on momentum more than on action

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.

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One False Move
1992 · dir. Carl Franklin
🍅 93%★ 7.1crime · drama · thriller

Atmospheric crime in both cases

Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.

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The Big Combo
1955 · dir. Joseph H. Lewis
🍅 93%★ 7.3drama · crime

Drama built on grit, twice over

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

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Force of Evil
1950 · dir. Abraham Polonsky
🍅 100%★ 7.2crime · drama

Action with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.

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Scarlet Street
1945 · dir. Fritz Lang
🍅 100%★ 7.7drama · crimePrime Video

A 1940s answer to the same itch

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

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Scarface
1932 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 98%★ 7.7crime · action · drama

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

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