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Movies that feel likeThe Whole Truth (2021)

When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.

If you loved The Whole Truth, the closest films we have are Finders Keepers (2014), Resolution (2013) and The Little Stranger (2018). All three share The Whole Truth's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Long Weekend (1979).

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Finders Keepers
2014 · dir. Alexander Yellen
🍅 98%★ 4.3mystery · thriller · horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

A haunted doll teaches one little girl why children shouldn't play with undead things.

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Resolution
2013 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 81%★ 6.4horror · thriller · mysteryRent or buy

The same mix in both: twists, then tension

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%★ 5.5mystery · horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

The difference: Trades the tension of The Whole Truth for an angle of its own

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%★ 6.2horror · mystery · thrillerHulu

Both lean on unease more than on mystery

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%★ 6.9mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

Thriller with a pulse of twists, in both cases

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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Hellhole
2022 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%★ 5.8horror · mysteryNetflix

Horror built on dread, twice over

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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The Bride
2017 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.6mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

Tense mystery in both cases

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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Long Weekend
1979 · dir. Colin Eggleston
🍅 89%★ 6.5horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Twisty horror in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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

Both lean on tension more than on mystery

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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The House That Screamed
1969 · dir. Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Cut from the same thriller cloth

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
★ 5.9horror · thrillerNetflix

Both are horror through and through

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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