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Movies that feel likeThe Last Duel (2021)

King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.

If you loved The Last Duel, the closest films we have are The Irishman (2019), Thelma & Louise (1991) and All the Money in the World (2017). All three share The Last Duel's gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ridley Scottcontemplativeepicwarmgritty
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The Irishman
2019 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 95%★ 7.8crime · drama · historyNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: male friendship

The difference: Leans harder into crime than The Last Duel does

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

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Thelma & Louise
1991 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 87%★ 7.6drama · crimePrime VideoHulu

The same hand behind both of them: Ridley Scott

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than The Last Duel does

Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.

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All the Money in the World
2017 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 79%★ 6.8crime · history · thrillerRent or buy

Ridley Scott working the same nerve twice

The difference: Trades the stillness of The Last Duel for an angle of its own

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

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Society of the Snow
2023 · dir. J. A. Bayona
🍅 90%★ 7.8drama · historyNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: a true story

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

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House of Gucci
2021 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 62%★ 6.6drama · historyPrime Video

One thread runs through both: a true story

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.

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

The same mix in both: stillness, then warmth

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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The Magnificent Seven
2016 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 64%★ 6.9adventure · action · western

Epic and gritty in the same breath

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.

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Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 93%★ 7.5crime · history · dramaApple TV+

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

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Dances with Wolves
1990 · dir. Kevin Costner
🍅 87%★ 8adventure · drama · westernPrime Video

History built on scale, twice over

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 1990s show

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

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Just Mercy
2019 · dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
🍅 85%★ 7.6drama · crime · history

Gritty drama in both cases

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

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

History with a pulse of warmth, 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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Black Mass
2015 · dir. Scott Cooper
🍅 74%★ 6.8drama · crime · history

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

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