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Movies that feel like A Haunting in Venice (2023)

If you loved A Haunting in Venice, the closest films we have are Tell No One (2006), The Girl in the Fog (2017) and Anatomy of a Fall (2023). All three share A Haunting in Venice's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

🍅 75% Rotten Tomatoes6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kenneth Branaghtwistytensegrittymelancholyromantic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Murder on the Orient Express (2017) · Death on the Nile (2022)

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Tell No One
2006 · dir. Guillaume Canet
🍅 93%7.5drama · thriller · crime

Both are built on the same subject: grief

The difference: Leans harder into drama than A Haunting in Venice does

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

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

Twisty where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Not nearly as melancholy as A Haunting in Venice

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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Anatomy of a Fall
2023 · dir. Justine Triet
🍅 96%7.6thriller · mystery · crime

The same mix in both: grit, then melancholy

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

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The Maltese Falcon
1941 · dir. John Huston
🍅 99%7.9mystery · crime · thriller

The same two preoccupations: detective, and whodunit

The difference: 82 years apart, and the 1940s show

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

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Flightplan
2005 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 36%6.3thriller · drama · mystery

One thread runs through both: grief

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.

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

Romantic mystery, and it commits to that

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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Mystic River
2003 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 89%7.9thriller · drama · mystery

Twisty thriller in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

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Lantana
2001 · dir. Ray Lawrence
🍅 90%7.2crime · drama · mystery

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

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

Mystery built on tension, twice over

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 Guest
2014 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 92%6.7mystery · thriller · action

Both keep coming back to the same thing: grief

A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

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The Vanishing
1988 · dir. George Sluizer
🍅 96%7.7thriller · mystery

Both lean on melancholy more than on thriller

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor.

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21 Grams
2003 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 80%7.6drama · crime · thriller

Crime built on romance, twice over

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

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