Movies like Maria Full of Grace
Maria Full of Grace (2004) is a thriller movie directed by Joshua Marston. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Layer Cake (2004)
★ 6.9 · 2,493 votes · Drama, Thriller, Crime
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
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2. The Mule (2018)
★ 6.9 · 5,512 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.
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3. Super Dark Times (2017)
★ 6.5 · 702 votes · Drama, Thriller
Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.
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4. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
★ 7.8 · 2,092 votes · Drama, Crime
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life becomes increasingly difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
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5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
★ 7.3 · 12,569 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Drama
A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
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6. Traffic (2000)
★ 7.1 · 2,525 votes · Thriller, Drama, Crime
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
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7. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
★ 7.6 · 9,469 votes · Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
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8. GoodFellas (1990)
★ 8.5 · 14,878 votes · Drama, Crime
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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9. Predestination (2014)
★ 7.4 · 7,410 votes · Sci-Fi, Thriller
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
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10. Now You See Me (2013)
★ 7.3 · 17,229 votes · Thriller, Crime
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
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11. Blow (2001)
★ 7.4 · 4,716 votes · Crime, Drama
The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.
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12. The Principal (1987)
★ 6.4 · 320 votes · Action, Adventure, Crime
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
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13. The Infiltrator (2016)
★ 6.7 · 1,886 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
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14. Veronica Guerin (2003)
★ 6.7 · 352 votes · Drama, Crime, Thriller
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
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15. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8.0 · 11,385 votes · Crime, Drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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16. Echo Valley (2025)
★ 6.5 · 429 votes · Thriller, Drama
Kate lives a secluded life—until her troubled daughter shows up, frightened and covered in someone else's blood. As Kate unravels the shocking truth, she learns just how far a mother will go to try to save her child.
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17. 25th Hour (2002)
★ 7.3 · 2,677 votes · Crime, Drama
On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.
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18. Midnight Express (1978)
★ 7.4 · 1,963 votes · Drama, Crime
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
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19. Jackie Brown (1997)
★ 7.4 · 7,168 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.
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20. Clockers (1995)
★ 6.7 · 374 votes · Crime, Drama, Mystery
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
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