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Movies that feel likeColors of Evil: Red (2024)

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.

If you loved Colors of Evil: Red, the closest films we have are The Girl in the Fog (2017), Marshland (2014) and Drishyam (2015). All three share Colors of Evil: Red's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933).

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Adrian Panekgrittytensetwisty
9 of 12 streaming nowHBO Max · Hulu · Criterion Channel

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

The same mix in both: grit, then tension

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

Crime built on twists, twice over

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

One thread runs through both: police

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Colors of Evil: Red does

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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A Hard Day
2014 · dir. Kim Seong-hun
🍅 82%★ 7.2crime · thriller · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: police

The difference: Sits closer to action than Colors of Evil: Red does

After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.

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

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%★ 7.3crime · thriller · mysteryMax

Tense mystery in both cases

The difference: 97 years apart, and the 1920s show

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

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Death on the Nile
2022 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 62%★ 6.3mystery · crime · thrillerHulu

Twisty crime, and it commits to that

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 · dir. Fritz Lang
🍅 86%★ 7.9crime · mystery · thrillerMax

Both lean on grit more than on thriller

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.

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Everybody Knows
2018 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 78%★ 6.9crime · mystery · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on mystery

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

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The Third Murder
2017 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 87%★ 6.7drama · mystery · crime

Crime with a pulse of twists, in both cases

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Colors of Evil: Red does

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

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Red Sparrow
2018 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 45%★ 6.6thriller · mystery

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.

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A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 · dir. Scott Frank
🍅 68%★ 6.5crime · drama · mystery

Both are mystery through and through

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

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