
Movies that feel likeSide Effects (2013)
If you loved Side Effects, the closest films we have are You Were Never Really Here (2017), The Devil All the Time (2020) and Hard Candy (2006). All three share Side Effects' tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Charley Varrick (1973).
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If Side Effects hit the spot, these will too

New York City shapes both of them

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder


Contemplative where it counts, melancholy underneath

Tense crime, and it commits to that
The difference: Leans harder into western than Side Effects does

Steven Soderbergh directing both, with the same fingerprints on each
The difference: Easier on the grit than Side Effects

Both lean on grit more than on thriller
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Contemplative drama in both cases
The difference: 32 years apart, and the 1980s show

Both are built on the same subject: psychiatrist
The difference: Trades the tension of Side Effects for an angle of its own

Thriller built on melancholy, twice over

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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