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Movies that feel likeSilenced (2011)

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.

If you loved Silenced, the closest films we have are The Fool (2014), Evil (2003) and A Touch of Sin (2013). All three share Silenced'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 Black Souls (2014).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Hwang Dong-hyukcontemplativegritty
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The Fool
2014 · dir. Yury Bykov
🍅 93%★ 7.9drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit

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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Evil
2003 · dir. Mikael Håfström
🍅 68%★ 7.7drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Stockholm, in the 1950s. Erik is expelled from the local school for getting into one brawl too many. To protect Erik from his violent stepfather’s reaction to his expulsion, Erik's mother arranges for Erik to spend a year at Stjärnsberg Boarding School, the only school willing to accept him. This is Erik's last chance to graduate to Upper School and he promises his mother, for his and her sake, to do all he can to stay out of trouble.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Silenced does

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

Drama with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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 sit in the same gritty register

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

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3096 Days
2013 · dir. Sherry Hormann
★ 6.5drama

Two things both keep coming back to: child abuse and rape

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

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

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

Cut from the same drama cloth

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

Drama in the same key

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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The Rider
2018 · dir. Chloé Zhao
🍅 97%★ 7.4drama · westernRent or buy

Both play drama straight

Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.

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First Cow
2020 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 95%★ 7.1drama · westernRent or buy

Both know what they want from drama

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.

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