Movies like Sicario

If you want Sicario's blend of suffocating moral compromise and operatives discovering their government handlers are as corrupt as the criminals they're hunting, you'd probably find it in Triple Frontier or Narco Sub, both of which pit idealistic men against institutions that weaponize them—though neither quite matches Sicario's relentless pacing or Roger Deakins' specific visual language of desert dread. The rest of these picks share fragments of that DNA (morally murky border landscapes, the erosion of idealism under operational pressure, shadowy government infrastructure), but most lack either the tonal precision or the cumulative sense of being trapped inside a system designed to compromise you.