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Films like Savages.

Savages (2012) reads as Heavy, steady, extreme crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Miss Sloane (2016) poster
1. Miss Sloane2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) poster
2. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie2019

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Captive (2014) poster
3. The Captive2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Infiltrator (2016) poster
4. The Infiltrator2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Emily the Criminal (2022) poster
5. Emily the Criminal2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

13 (2010) poster
6. 132010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bogotá: City of the Lost (2024) poster
7. Bogotá: City of the Lost2024

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Stolen (2024) poster
8. Stolen2024

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Iceman (2012) poster
9. The Iceman2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

King Ivory (2025) poster
10. King Ivory2025

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Accidental Getaway Driver (2025) poster
11. The Accidental Getaway Driver2025

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Courier (2020) poster
12. The Courier2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

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