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From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.

If you loved Decision to Leave, the closest films we have are Joint Security Area (2000), Suspicion (1941) and To Catch a Thief (1955). All three share Decision to Leave'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 Rojo (2018).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Park Chan-wooktensetwistyromantic
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Joint Security Area
2000 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 88%★ 7.7drama · thriller · mystery

Park Chan-wook working the same nerve twice

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Decision to Leave does

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The lead investigator (Lee Young-ae) receives differing accounts from the two sides.

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Suspicion
1941 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 97%★ 7.2mystery · romance · thriller

One thread runs through both: the investigation

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

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

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To Catch a Thief
1955 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%★ 7.4mystery · romance · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: police

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

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

Tense where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Decision to Leave does

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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Young and Innocent
1937 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 100%★ 6.8thriller · romance · mystery

Thriller with a pulse of romance, in both cases

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.

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Kahaani
2012 · dir. Sujoy Ghosh
🍅 100%★ 8.1mystery · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the investigation

The difference: Easier on the romance than Decision to Leave

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

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The Body
2012 · dir. Oriol Paulo
★ 7.6thriller · mysteryPrime Video

Two things both keep coming back to: detective and love

A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.

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The Hidden Face
2011 · dir. Andrés Baiz
★ 7.3thriller · mystery

Both lean on tension more than on mystery

A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

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Burning
2018 · dir. Lee Chang-dong
🍅 95%★ 7.4mystery · drama · thrillerRent or buy

Twisty romance, and it commits to that

Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.

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The Ghost Writer
2010 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 84%★ 7.2thriller · mysteryPrime VideoStarz

Tense thriller in both cases

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.

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Rojo
2018 · dir. Benjamín Naishtat
🍅 96%★ 6.3drama · mystery · thriller

Common ground: detective

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

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Knock at the Cabin
2023 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 67%★ 6.1thriller · mysteryNetflix

Mystery built on twists, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

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