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Movies that feel likeNeighboring Sounds (2012)

An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.

If you loved Neighboring Sounds, the closest films we have are The Secret Agent (2025), The Silence (2010) and Easy Money (2010). All three share Neighboring Sounds' tense and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Hyena (2015).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kleber Mendonça Filhotensecontemplativegritty
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The Secret Agent
2025 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 98%★ 7.2thriller · drama · crimeHulu

Kleber Mendonça Filho working the same nerve twice

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

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The Silence
2010 · dir. Baran bo Odar
🍅 87%★ 6.9crime · thriller · drama

The same mix in both: tension, then stillness

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

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Easy Money
2010 · dir. Daniel Espinosa
🍅 85%★ 6.7drama · thriller · crime

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.

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Hyena
2015 · dir. Gerard Johnson
🍅 78%★ 6.2crime · drama · thriller

Tense drama in both cases

Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?

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Mystery Road
2013 · dir. Ivan Sen
🍅 91%★ 6.7thriller · crime · dramaPrime VideoPeacock

Crime built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to western than Neighboring Sounds does

A murdered girl is found under a bridge on a remote road and indigenous detective Jay Swan gets the case. Jay finds that no-one is that interested in solving the murder of an indigenous teenager and he is forced to work alone.

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Elize: Shadows of a Woman
2026 · dir. Vellas
★ 7.4thriller · crime · dramaNetflix

Both lean on grit more than on thriller

In this retelling of a real case, a former escort discovers her wealthy husband's infidelity and struggles to cope as betrayal poisons their marriage.

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The Unjust
2010 · dir. Ryoo Seung-wan
★ 6.5crime · thrillerNetflix

Tense crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Neighboring Sounds does

An honest cop has to compromise with his principles when he is told to find a scapegoat for a high-profile serial killer case in exchange for a big promotion.

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The Hypnotist
2012 · dir. Lasse Hallström
★ 5.6crime · drama · thriller

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving daughter before the murderer does.

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The Wild Goose Lake
2019 · dir. Diao Yinan
🍅 91%★ 6.7crime · drama · thriller

Thriller built on grit, twice over

A gangster ends up making a mistake that causes every gun on both sides of the law to point at him. While on the run, he comes across a mysterious woman who might get him out of trouble or make things worse.

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The Yellow Sea
2010 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 88%★ 7.3drama · thriller · crime

Both are drama through and through

A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

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Red Rock West
1993 · dir. John Dahl
🍅 95%★ 7crime · thriller

Crime of the same temperament

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

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Holy Spider
2022 · dir. Ali Abbasi
🍅 82%★ 7.3thriller · drama · crime

Thriller approached the same way

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

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