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Movies that feel likeTrance (2013)

A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

If you loved Trance, the closest films we have are The Call (2020), Marshland (2014) and The Girl in the Fog (2017). All three share Trance'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 Colors of Evil: Red (2024).

🍅 69% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Danny Boyletensegrittytwistycerebralplayful
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If Trance hit the spot, these will too

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

Common ground: tense

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Trance does

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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Marshland
2014 · dir. Alberto Rodríguez
🍅 91%★ 7.2crime · mystery · thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then grit

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.

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The Girl in the Fog
2017 · dir. Donato Carrisi
🍅 75%★ 6.8mystery · thriller · crime

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 · dir. Adrian Panek
🍅 80%★ 6.4crime · thriller · mysteryNetflix

Tense crime, and it commits to that

When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.

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

Cerebral mystery in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than Trance does

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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Eastern Promises
2007 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 89%★ 7.6thriller · crime · mysteryPrime Video

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

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Bacurau
2019 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 93%★ 7.3mystery · western · thrillerRent or buy

Mystery built on twists, twice over

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

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A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 · dir. Scott Frank
🍅 68%★ 6.5crime · drama · mystery

A 2010s answer to the same itch

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

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Drishyam
2015 · dir. Nishikant Kamat
🍅 64%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · drama

Gritty thriller, and it commits to that

When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.

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Death on the Nile
2022 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 62%★ 6.3mystery · crime · thrillerHulu

Twisty crime, and it commits to that

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

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A Hard Day
2014 · dir. Kim Seong-hun
🍅 82%★ 7.2crime · thriller · mystery

Cut from the same mystery cloth

After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2009 · dir. Daniel Alfredson
🍅 53%★ 7.3action · thriller · crimePrime Video

Both are thriller through and through

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

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