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Movies that feel likeThe Bling Ring (2013)

Lured by stardom, a crew of aimless teens breaks into celebrity homes for a string of high-profile robberies and fame by appropriation.

If you loved The Bling Ring, the closest films we have are Spring Breakers (2013), Force Majeure (2014) and Uncut Gems (2019). All three share The Bling Ring's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Pleasure (2021).

🍅 59% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sofia Coppolacontemplativegrittywarmdarkly funny
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If The Bling Ring hit the spot, these will too

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Spring Breakers
2013 · dir. Harmony Korine
🍅 67%★ 5.3drama · crimeMax

Both are built on the same subject: female friendship

The difference: Takes it somewhere less darkly funny than The Bling Ring does

After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.

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Force Majeure
2014 · dir. Ruben Östlund
🍅 94%★ 7.2dramaRent or buy

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

The difference: Reviewed even better

While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

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Uncut Gems
2019 · dir. Benny Safdie
🍅 91%★ 7.4drama · thriller · crimeRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: dark comedy

The difference: Trades the warmth of The Bling Ring for an angle of its own

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

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The Great Beauty
2013 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 91%★ 7.7dramaMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: satire

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

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The Square
2017 · dir. Ruben Östlund
🍅 85%★ 7.1dramaPrime Video

Common ground: satire

A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.

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Natural Born Killers
1994 · dir. Oliver Stone
🍅 52%★ 7.2crime · thriller · drama

Contemplative and gritty in the same breath

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Bling Ring does

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

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Cop Car
2015 · dir. Jon Watts
🍅 82%★ 6.3crime · thrillerPrime Video

Darkly funny crime, and it commits to that

Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.

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Cold Pursuit
2019 · dir. Hans Petter Moland
🍅 68%★ 6.2crime · action · dramaPrime Video

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.

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Pleasure
2021 · dir. Ninja Thyberg
🍅 88%★ 6.3dramaRent or buy

From the 2020s, and it lands the same way

Bella Cherry arrives in Los Angeles with dreams of becoming an adult film star, but she soon learns that fame won't come easy as she harnesses her ambition and cunning to rise to the top of this mesmerizing and singular world.

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Shallow Grave
1994 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 72%★ 7.2crime · thriller

Both lean on warmth more than on crime

When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newfound fortune gradually corrodes their friendship.

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Bad Education
2004 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · crime

Gritty drama in both cases

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

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21
2008 · dir. Robert Luketic
🍅 36%★ 6.8drama · crime

Drama with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 tuition as he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor to a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher, who are being trained by Professor Rosa to count cards at blackjack.

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