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Movies that feel likeA Haunting in Venice (2023)

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

If you loved A Haunting in Venice, the closest films we have are Anatomy of a Fall (2023), The Girl in the Fog (2017) and Tell No One (2006). All three share A Haunting in Venice's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Lantana (2001).

🍅 75% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kenneth Branaghtwistytensegrittymelancholy
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Murder on the Orient Express (2017) · Death on the Nile (2022)

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Anatomy of a Fall
2023 · dir. Justine Triet
🍅 96%★ 7.6thriller · mystery · crimeMax

The same mix in both: twists, then tension

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

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The Girl in the Fog
2017 · dir. Donato Carrisi
🍅 75%★ 6.8mystery · thriller · crime

Both lean on grit more than on mystery

The difference: Takes it somewhere less melancholy than A Haunting in Venice does

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

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Tell No One
2006 · dir. Guillaume Canet
🍅 93%★ 7.5drama · thriller · crime

Both are built on the same subject: grief

The difference: Leans harder into drama than A Haunting in Venice does

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 · dir. Adrian Panek
🍅 80%★ 6.4crime · thriller · mysteryNetflix

Thriller built on twists, twice over

When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.

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The Guest
2014 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 92%★ 6.7mystery · thriller · action

Both keep coming back to the same thing: grief

The difference: Sits closer to action than A Haunting in Venice does

A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

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Marshland
2014 · dir. Alberto Rodríguez
🍅 91%★ 7.2crime · mystery · thriller

Tense crime in both cases

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.

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Solace
2015 · dir. Afonso Poyart
🍅 24%★ 6.4thriller · crime · mysteryPrime Video

Melancholy mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.

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Flightplan
2005 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 36%★ 6.3thriller · drama · mystery

One thread runs through both: grief

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.

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Lantana
2001 · dir. Ray Lawrence
🍅 90%★ 7.2crime · drama · mystery

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

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The Maltese Falcon
1941 · dir. John Huston
🍅 99%★ 7.9mystery · crime · thrillerMax

The same two preoccupations: detective, and whodunit

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

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You Were Never Really Here
2017 · dir. Lynne Ramsay
🍅 89%★ 6.7crime · drama · thrillerPrime Video

Melancholy thriller, and it commits to that

A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered—leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

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Bacurau
2019 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 93%★ 7.3mystery · western · thrillerRent or buy

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

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