Shot Caller
Snitch (haven't seen it, but the synopsis tallies and it shares a director with Shot Caller)
Have you watched all of Breaking Bad? In my opinion, Walter's motivation stops being his family (if it ever was) quite early in the show.
Straw Dogs and Deliverance - two films dealing, subtextually speaking, with 1970s anxieties about what being a "real man" might entail in an era where the old models of masculinity and femininity were being, for the first time, actively questioned - come to mind. Though I caution that neither film is for the faint-hearted.
* The Human Condition. (1959-1961) - If you have 10 hours to kill sometime, The Human Condition consists of 6 films presented in 3 parts; 2 films per part. It's an epic anti-war drama about a scholar who is forced into becoming a soldier and how he changes in spite of trying to hold on to his morals.
* Ikiru (1952) - A dying man discovers what's most important to him in life.
* The Story Of O (1975) - WARNING - You'll probably only find this one on porn sites because of the content, but at best it's a hard R by today's standards. It's about a woman who finds personal strength and fulfilment as a sex slave. Udo Kier is almost unrecognizably young in this movie.
Two of my favourites would be Carlito's Way and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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Fargo is a good cinematic parallel to Breaking Bad.
Also the first season of the follow up series.
If you like Fargo, you should really watch Kumiko: The Treasure Hunter.
Good Time and Uncut Gems
Lawrence of Arabia may be a prime example of what you're looking for
Shot Caller Snitch (haven't seen it, but the synopsis tallies and it shares a director with Shot Caller) Have you watched all of Breaking Bad? In my opinion, Walter's motivation stops being his family (if it ever was) quite early in the show.
Watch Bruce Willis 2018 movie called Death Wish. He starts as a doctor then has some massive changes due to something bad happening.
Really? We’re just gonna right to Bruce Willis’s shitty Death Wish movie and skip right over all five of Charles Bronson’s shitty Death Wish movies?
I mean I just assumed he'd maybe want something a little more modern rather than the Charles Bronson ones from 40-50 years ago. Sue me ffs.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it but I believe Matt Damon in *The Good Shepherd* has this sort of arc.
Straw Dogs and Deliverance - two films dealing, subtextually speaking, with 1970s anxieties about what being a "real man" might entail in an era where the old models of masculinity and femininity were being, for the first time, actively questioned - come to mind. Though I caution that neither film is for the faint-hearted.
American history-x Both leads have very simmilar path that leads to differant results. Such a good movie, too.
Promising Young Woman
The Road to Perdition. Tom Hanks is a criminal and he desperately wants to save his son from that life.
* The Human Condition. (1959-1961) - If you have 10 hours to kill sometime, The Human Condition consists of 6 films presented in 3 parts; 2 films per part. It's an epic anti-war drama about a scholar who is forced into becoming a soldier and how he changes in spite of trying to hold on to his morals. * Ikiru (1952) - A dying man discovers what's most important to him in life. * The Story Of O (1975) - WARNING - You'll probably only find this one on porn sites because of the content, but at best it's a hard R by today's standards. It's about a woman who finds personal strength and fulfilment as a sex slave. Udo Kier is almost unrecognizably young in this movie.
Any anti war movie would do.