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Movies that feel like12 (2007)

A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

If you loved 12, the closest films we have are The Third Murder (2017), After Dark, My Sweet (1990) and The Imposter (2012). All three share 12's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014).

🍅 76% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Nikita Mikhalkovgrittycontemplativetwisty
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The Third Murder
2017 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 87%★ 6.7drama · mystery · crime

Common ground: courtroom drama

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

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After Dark, My Sweet
1990 · dir. James Foley
🍅 80%★ 6.5crime · drama · mysteryStarz

Gritty and contemplative in the same breath

Three desperados try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

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The Imposter
2012 · dir. Bart Layton
🍅 95%★ 7.4documentary · mystery · crimePrime Video

Crime with a pulse of twists, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than 12 does

In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

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Brick
2006 · dir. Rian Johnson
🍅 79%★ 7.1drama · mystery · crime

Both lean on grit more than on drama

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

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The White Ribbon
2009 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 85%★ 7.8drama · mystery

Contemplative mystery, and it commits to that

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

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Mother
2009 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 96%★ 7.7crime · drama · mystery

Crime built on twists, twice over

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

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Anatomy of a Murder
1959 · dir. Otto Preminger
🍅 100%★ 8crime · drama · mysteryPrime Video

Two things both keep coming back to: court case and jurors

The difference: 48 years apart, and the 1950s show

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

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And Then There Were None
1945 · dir. René Clair
🍅 100%★ 7.3crime · drama · mysteryPrime Video

Gritty drama in both cases

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

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Drishyam
2015 · dir. Nishikant Kamat
🍅 64%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · drama

Mystery built on stillness, twice over

When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.

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Changeling
2008 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 61%★ 7.7crime · drama · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on crime

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

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🍅 83%★ 6.7documentary · mystery · history

The mystery is handled with the same confidence

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.

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In the Heat of the Night
1967 · dir. Norman Jewison
🍅 96%★ 7.9crime · drama · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: racism

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

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