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Movies that feel likeA Hard Day (2014)

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.

If you loved A Hard Day, the closest films we have are The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009), Colors of Evil: Red (2024) and Drishyam (2015). All three share A Hard Day's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kim Seong-hungrittytensetwistykinetic
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest poster
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2009 · dir. Daniel Alfredson
🍅 53%★ 7.3action · thriller · crimePrime Video

Both land grit and tension at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

One thread runs through both: police

The difference: Trades the momentum of A Hard Day for an angle of its own

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

Both are built on the same subject: murder

The difference: Easier on the momentum than A Hard Day

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

Both lean on twists more than on crime

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

Gritty thriller in both cases

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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Infernal Affairs II
2003 · dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
🍅 75%★ 7.2action · thriller · crimeMax

The same preoccupation in both: gangster

In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.

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Kahaani
2012 · dir. Sujoy Ghosh
🍅 100%★ 8.1mystery · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: police corruption

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

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Bacurau
2019 · dir. Juliano Dornelles
🍅 93%★ 7.3mystery · western · thrillerRent or buy

Tense mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to western than A Hard Day does

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

Common ground: gangster

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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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%★ 7.3crime · thriller · mysteryMax

Action built on twists, twice over

The difference: 87 years apart, and the 1920s show

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 · dir. Fritz Lang
🍅 86%★ 7.9crime · mystery · thrillerMax

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.

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Everybody Knows
2018 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 78%★ 6.9crime · mystery · thrillerPeacock

Tense thriller in both cases

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

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