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Movies that feel likeKnock at the Cabin (2023)

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.

If you loved Knock at the Cabin, the closest films we have are Unbreakable (2000), The Ghost Writer (2010) and Exam (2009). All three share Knock at the Cabin'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).

🍅 67% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. M. Night Shyamalantensetwisty
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Unbreakable
2000 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 71%★ 7.3thriller · drama · mystery

M. Night Shyamalan working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Knock at the Cabin does

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

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

Tense where it counts, twisty underneath

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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Exam
2009 · dir. Stuart Hazeldine
🍅 61%★ 6.7thriller · mystery

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, where an armed guard keeps watch, they are given 80 minutes to answer one simple question.

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

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

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

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

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

Twisty mystery in both cases

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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The Village
2004 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 43%★ 6.6drama · mystery · thrillerHulu

M. Night Shyamalan directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

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

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

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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Identity
2003 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 64%★ 7.3mystery · thriller

Both play mystery straight

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

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The Da Vinci Code
2006 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 25%★ 6.7thriller · mysteryNetflixStarz

The same thriller instincts

A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.

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

Mystery of the same temperament

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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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 · dir. Adrian Panek
🍅 80%★ 6.4crime · thriller · mysteryNetflix

Cut from the same thriller cloth

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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