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10 Best Movies Like 21 Grams

If you loved 21 Grams, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Damage

Damage

2009★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 Grams for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely...

#2
Desperate Measures

Desperate Measures

1998★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 Grams for fans of Drama & Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted...

#3
Changing Lanes

Changing Lanes

2002★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 Grams for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day,...

#4
Red Right Hand

Red Right Hand

2024★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 Grams for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Cash is trying to live a quiet, honest life in a small Appalachian town. When a vicious crime boss forces him back into her services, he soon learns he's capable of anything -- eve...

#5
Rust Creek

Rust Creek

2019★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 Grams for fans of Drama & Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky....

#6
The Air I Breathe

The Air I Breathe

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 21 Grams for fans of Drama & Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race against time to rescue his beloved... Four interconn...

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