
Movies that feel likeThe Crimson Rivers (2000)
If you loved The Crimson Rivers, the closest films we have are The Girl in the Fog (2017), Marshland (2014) and L.A. Confidential (1997). All three share The Crimson Rivers' gritty and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Colors of Evil: Red (2024).
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If The Crimson Rivers hit the spot, these will too

Gritty and twisty in the same breath
The difference: Takes it somewhere less dread-soaked than The Crimson Rivers does

One thread runs through both: serial killer

The same two preoccupations: detective, and corpse
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases
The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Gritty mystery, and it commits to that

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the investigation

Mathieu Kassovitz working the same nerve twice
The difference: Sits closer to horror than The Crimson Rivers does

Common ground: serial killer
The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Crimson Rivers does

Both are built on the same subject: detective

The same preoccupation in both: murder

Both are built on the same subject: murder

Twisty thriller in both cases
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