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Movies that feel likeThe Gift (2015)

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

If you loved The Gift, the closest films we have are The Housemaid (2025), Gone Girl (2014) and Shutter Island (2010). All three share The Gift'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).

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joel Edgertontensetwistycontemplativeunsettling
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The Housemaid
2025 · dir. Paul Feig
🍅 74%★ 6.7mystery · thrillerMaxStarz

One thread runs through both: psychological thriller

The difference: Trades the stillness of The Gift for an angle of its own

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.

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Gone Girl
2014 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 88%★ 8.1mystery · thriller · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: psychological thriller

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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Shutter Island
2010 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 69%★ 8.2drama · thriller · mysteryParamount+

Tense and twisty in the same breath

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

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

Contemplative thriller 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 Invisible Guest
2017 · dir. Oriol Paulo
🍅 67%★ 8drama · mystery · thriller

Mystery with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.

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

Drama built on tension, twice over

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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Verity
2026 · dir. Michael Showalter
★ 6.3mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

Lowen Ashleigh, hired to ghostwrite for best-selling author Verity Crawford, uncovers Verity's autobiographical notes, and becomes involved in what may prove to be a lethal conspiracy.

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Searching
2018 · dir. Aneesh Chaganty
🍅 92%★ 7.6drama · mystery · thriller

Contemplative mystery, and it commits to that

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

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

Different title, same corner of the shelf

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

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

Same instincts, 5 years apart

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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Gaslight
1944 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 94%★ 7.8thriller · drama · mystery

Mystery built on unease, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to crime than The Gift does

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

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The Firm
1993 · dir. Sydney Pollack
🍅 77%★ 6.9drama · mystery · thrillerMaxParamount+

Common ground: married couple

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...

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