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Movies that feel likeBlack Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

If you loved Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the closest films we have are Leave the World Behind (2023), The Call (2020) and The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013). All three share Black Mirror: Bandersnatch's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Insomnia (1997).

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Leave the World Behind
2023 · dir. Sam Esmail
🍅 73%★ 6.4drama · mystery · thrillerNetflix

Tense and twisty in the same breath

The difference: Less cerebral, more its own thing

A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.

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The Call
2020 · dir. Lee Chung-hyun
🍅 46%★ 7.1thriller · mystery · science fictionNetflix

Thriller built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Goes its own way on the atmosphere

Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.

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The Keeper of Lost Causes
2013 · dir. Mikkel Nørgaard
🍅 70%★ 7.2thriller · mystery · crime

Both lean on atmosphere more than on mystery

The difference: Played as crime first

Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.

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The End of Oak Street
2026 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 86%★ 6.5science fiction · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Tense science fiction in both cases

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

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Dark Passage
1947 · dir. Delmer Daves
🍅 90%★ 7.5thriller · mystery

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

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Cube
1998 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 61%★ 7.1thriller · science fiction · mystery

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

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The Third Man
1949 · dir. Carol Reed
🍅 99%★ 8.1thriller · mystery

Atmospheric mystery, and it commits to that

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

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Diabolique
1955 · dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
🍅 95%★ 8.1thriller · mysteryMax

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

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Limitless
2011 · dir. Neil Burger
🍅 68%★ 7.4thriller · mystery · science fiction

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

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Transcendence
2014 · dir. Wally Pfister
🍅 19%★ 6.2thriller · science fiction · drama

One thread runs through both: technology

Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

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Source Code
2011 · dir. Duncan Jones
🍅 92%★ 7.5thriller · science fiction · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: time loop

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

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Insomnia
1997 · dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg
🍅 95%★ 7.2thriller · crime · mysteryPrime Video

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.

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