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Movies that feel likeDrishyam (2015)

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.

If you loved Drishyam, the closest films we have are Colors of Evil: Red (2024), A Hard Day (2014) and Marshland (2014). All three share Drishyam'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 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933).

🍅 64% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Nishikant Kamattwistytensecontemplativegritty
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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 · dir. Adrian Panek
🍅 80%★ 6.4crime · thriller · mysteryNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: police

The difference: Trades the stillness of Drishyam for an angle of its own

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

One thread runs through both: murder

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Drishyam

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

The same mix in both: twists, then tension

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

The same preoccupation in both: murder

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

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

Gritty mystery in both cases

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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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 · dir. Juan José Campanella
🍅 89%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · dramaHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: police

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

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12
2007 · dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
🍅 76%★ 7.5crime · drama · mystery

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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.

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

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

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

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

Both lean on tension more than on crime

The difference: Sits closer to western than Drishyam does

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 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 · dir. Niels Arden Oplev
🍅 85%★ 7.8drama · thriller · crimePrime Video

Mystery built on stillness, twice over

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

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

Both lean on grit more than on crime

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

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

The difference: 82 years apart, and the 1930s show

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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