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Crime Movies For Restless Nights From The 2010S

Crime movies for restless nights from the 2010s. Includes Joker, Better Days, Prisoners and more, curated by Moviepiq.

Something to watch when the night won't settle. Absorbing enough to help, calm enough not to hurt.

Joker movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.

Better Days movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.

Prisoners movie poster
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2013 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.

Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.

The Hate U Give movie poster
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2018 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri movie poster
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2017 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.

Restless nights need films that absorb without over-stimulating. That balance is harder than it sounds.

Immersive enough to break out of the restless loop.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair movie poster
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2011 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even with every person who contributed to the loss of her unborn child, her entire wedding party, and four years of her life. After devising a hit list, The Bride sets off on her quest, enduring unspeakable injury and unscrupulous enemies.

The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.

The Wolf of Wall Street movie poster
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2013 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.

Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey movie poster
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2018 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

On the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old 'Lisa McVey' is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive and is raped. She manages to talk her attacker into releasing her, but when she returns home, no one believes her story except for one detective, who suspects she was abducted by a serial killer. Based on horrifying true events.

Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.

Forgotten movie poster
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2017 · ★★★½☆ 7.9/10

Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok's eye. Jin-seok can't recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger.

The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.

Bad Genius movie poster
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2017 · ★★★½☆ 7.9/10

Lynn, a brilliant student, after helping her friends to get the grades they need, develops the idea of starting a much bigger exam-cheating business.

The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.

These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.

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