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Movies that feel likeFlightplan (2005)

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.

If you loved Flightplan, the closest films we have are The Vanishing (1988), Tell No One (2006) and The Guest (2014). All three share Flightplan'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 Lantana (2001).

🍅 36% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Schwentketensecontemplativetwistymelancholy
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The Vanishing
1988 · dir. George Sluizer
🍅 96%★ 7.6thriller · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: grief

The difference: Reviewed even better

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor.

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

The same preoccupation in both: grief

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Flightplan 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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The Guest
2014 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 92%★ 6.7mystery · thriller · action

Both land tension and twists at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Flightplan 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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A Haunting in Venice
2023 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 75%★ 6.5mystery · thriller · crimeHulu

Both lean on melancholy more than on thriller

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

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.

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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 Invisible Guest
2017 · dir. Oriol Paulo
🍅 67%★ 8drama · mystery · thriller

Tense mystery, and it commits to that

Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.

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

Twisty thriller in both cases

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

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Suicide Room
2011 · dir. Jan Komasa
★ 6.6drama · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Moody, dark, and handsome Dominik is terrorized at school, after video footage of his drunken kiss with classmate Aleksandr goes viral. Grappling with public humiliation, Dominik seeks solace in an avatar based "suicide room," where the pink-haired rebel Sylwia consoles him.

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Searching
2018 · dir. Aneesh Chaganty
🍅 92%★ 7.6drama · mystery · thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: missing child and missing daughter

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

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Mystic River
2003 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 89%★ 7.9thriller · drama · mystery

Both lean on melancholy more than on mystery

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

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

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · dir. Tomas Alfredson
🍅 84%★ 7drama · thriller · mystery

A 2010s answer to the same itch

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

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