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Movies that feel likeLeave the World Behind (2023)

A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.

If you loved Leave the World Behind, the closest films we have are The Purity of Vengeance (2018), Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) and Dark Passage (1947). All three share Leave the World Behind'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 Rojo (2018).

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The Purity of Vengeance
2018 · dir. Christoffer Boe
★ 7.4crime · thriller · mystery

Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Leave the World Behind does

Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties.

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
2018 · dir. David Slade
★ 7.1thriller · science fiction · mysteryRent or buy

The same mix in both: tension, then atmosphere

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Leave the World Behind

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

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Dark Passage
1947 · dir. Delmer Daves
🍅 90%★ 7.5thriller · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

The difference: Trades the stillness of Leave the World Behind for an angle of its own

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

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The Third Man
1949 · dir. Carol Reed
🍅 99%★ 8.1thriller · mystery

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: Reviewed even better

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

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Diabolique
1955 · dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
🍅 95%★ 8.1thriller · mysteryMax

Atmospheric drama in both cases

The difference: 68 years apart, and the 1950s show

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

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

The same preoccupation in both: apocalypse

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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The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 86%★ 7.5mystery · crime · thriller

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

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Stray Dog
1949 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 100%★ 7.8crime · drama · thriller

Contemplative mystery, and it commits to that

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

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Following
1999 · dir. Christopher Nolan
🍅 87%★ 7.4drama · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.

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High and Low
1963 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 97%★ 8.4drama · crime · thrillerMax

Twisty drama in both cases

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

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

Mystery of the same temperament

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 Aura
2005 · dir. Fabián Bielinsky
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · thriller

Atmospheric thriller, and it commits to that

A quiet, epileptic taxidermist plans the perfect crime. All he needs is the right opportunity. An accident, perhaps…

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