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Movies that feel likeMulholland Drive (2001)

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

If you loved Mulholland Drive, the closest films we have are Cube (1998), Contact (1997) and The Bourne Identity (2002). All three share Mulholland Drive's twisty and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Sound of My Voice (2011).

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Lynchtensecontemplativetwistycerebral
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · ARROW · Kocowa

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If Mulholland Drive hit the spot, these will too

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Cube
1998 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 61%★ 7.1thriller · science fiction · mystery

A cerebral, twisty puzzle where the rules of reality keep shifting

The difference: A claustrophobic trap-room thriller, not a dreamlike identity mystery

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

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Contact
1997 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 69%★ 7.5drama · science fiction · mystery

Contemplative and twisty in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the tension than Mulholland Drive

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

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The Bourne Identity
2002 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 84%★ 7.8action · mystery · thrillerNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: amnesia

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Mulholland Drive does

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?

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Limitless
2011 · dir. Neil Burger
🍅 68%★ 7.4thriller · mystery · science fiction

Both land tension and ideas at once

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than Mulholland Drive does

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

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The Call
2020 · dir. Lee Chung-hyun
🍅 46%★ 7.1thriller · mystery · science fictionNetflix

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.

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Lost Highway
1997 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 70%★ 7.6drama · thriller · mystery

Lynch's own dream-logic playbook — doppelgangers, dread and dissolving identity

The difference: A jazz-musician nightmare of gangsters and prison, colder and darker

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

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Joint Security Area
2000 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 88%★ 7.7drama · thriller · mystery

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Sound of My Voice
2011 · dir. Zal Batmanglij
🍅 76%★ 6.6science fiction · drama · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

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The End of Oak Street
2026 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 86%★ 6.5science fiction · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Thriller built on ideas, twice over

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 2020s show

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

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Transcendence
2014 · dir. Wally Pfister
🍅 19%★ 6.2thriller · science fiction · drama

Tense drama in both cases

Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

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

Both are built on the same subject: detective

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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Source Code
2011 · dir. Duncan Jones
🍅 92%★ 7.5thriller · science fiction · mystery

Common ground: identity

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

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