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Movies that feel likeTrue Romance (1993)

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

If you loved True Romance, the closest films we have are Fallen Angels (1995), Spy Game (2001) and How I Fell in Love with a Gangster (2022). All three share True Romance's kinetic and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Tombstone (1993).

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tony Scottkineticgrittyromantic
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Fallen Angels
1995 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 96%★ 7.5action · romance · crimeMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love

An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.

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Spy Game
2001 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 64%★ 7.1action · crime · thrillerNetflix

Both are Tony Scott's work, and they rhyme

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.

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How I Fell in Love with a Gangster
2022 · dir. Maciej Kawulski
🍅 60%★ 6.1crime · action · dramaNetflix

Common ground: love

The difference: Leans harder into drama than True Romance does

A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.

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Carlito's Way
1993 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 84%★ 7.9crime · drama · thrillerPrime VideoStarz

The same preoccupation in both: cocaine

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than True Romance does

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

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Tombstone
1993 · dir. George P. Cosmatos
🍅 76%★ 7.8western · action

Kinetic where it counts, gritty underneath

The difference: Sits closer to western than True Romance does

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

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Baby Driver
2017 · dir. Edgar Wright
🍅 92%★ 7.5action · crimeParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: life on the run

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

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Transporter 3
2008 · dir. Olivier Megaton
🍅 40%★ 6.1action · thriller · crime

One thread runs through both: detective

Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.

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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 51%★ 6.4crime · thriller · action

Tony Scott working the same nerve twice

Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.

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In the Line of Duty 4
1989 · dir. Yuen Woo-ping
★ 7.1action · crime · thriller

A 1980s answer to the same itch

Two detectives who are up to their necks in trouble and in each other's face, as they try to shut down a drug-trafficking scheme that could be connected with international ties to organized crime. But in the midst of their investigation, innocent immigrant dock worker Luk Wan-Ting gets caught up in the mix when he witnesses the murder of an intelligence operative and is framed for the crime.

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Chocolate
2008 · dir. Prachya Pinkaew
🍅 71%★ 6.9action · crime

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.

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Once Upon a Time in America
1984 · dir. Sergio Leone
🍅 86%★ 8.3drama · crimePrime Video

Romantic crime in both cases

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

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Wheels on Meals
1984 · dir. Sammo Hung
★ 7romance · action · comedyPrime Video

Romance built on grit, twice over

Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.

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