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Movies like Payback 1999
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Payback
Movies closest to Payback
Red Hill 2010Also unpretentious, relentless and bleak
The Hit 1984Also relentless and plot-driven
New Jack City 1991Also plot-driven
Felidae 1994Also grave and plot-driven
52 Pick-Up 1986Also grave
Kite 2014Also grave, unpretentious and relentless
Out of Time 2003Also grave
Blood and Black Lace 1964Also bleak, grave and plot-driven
Guns & Moses 2025Also unpretentious and grave
Lupin the 3rd: Goemon's Blood Spray 2017Also unpretentious, relentless and grave
The Getaway 1972Also plot-driven and grave
Hiruko the Goblin 1991Also bleak, plot-driven and unpretentious
The same feel, in other forms
Books
The ice harvest 2000Also grave and plot-driven
City Primeval 1980Also relentless, grave and plot-driven
Sparrow Hill Road 2014Also grave and unpretentious
Albums
- Follow the Blind 1989Also relentless, unpretentious and grave
- Creatures 2010Also relentless, bleak and unpretentious
- Sleep in Safety 1983Also bleak and relentless
Series
Seis Manos 2019Also unpretentious, grave and plot-driven
Black Lagoon 2006Also unpretentious, relentless and grave
Afro Samurai 2007Also grave, relentless and unpretentious
Games
Shadowgrounds 2005Also unpretentious, relentless and grave
I Am Your Beast 2024Also relentless, plot-driven and grave
Dusty Revenge: Co-Op Edition 2014Also unpretentious, relentless and grave
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