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Movies that feel like A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

If you loved A Walk Among the Tombstones, the closest films we have are The Girl in the Fog (2017), Drishyam (2015) and The Bone Collector (1999). All three share A Walk Among the Tombstones' gritty and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 68% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Scott Frankgrittycontemplativetwistytense
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The Girl in the Fog
2017 Β· dir. Donato Carrisi
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.8mystery Β· thriller Β· crime

Both land grit and twists at once

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative

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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Drishyam
2015 Β· dir. Nishikant Kamat
πŸ… 75%β˜… 8.2mystery Β· thriller Β· drama

Common ground: murder

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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The Bone Collector
1999 Β· dir. Phillip Noyce
πŸ… 30%β˜… 6.7crime Β· thriller Β· drama

The same city underneath both: New York City

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.

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Brick
2006 Β· dir. Rian Johnson
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.1drama Β· mystery Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: drugs

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 Β· dir. Niels Arden Oplev
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.8drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Contemplative and tense in the same breath

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik WennerstrΓΆm. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

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Side Effects
2013 Β· dir. Steven Soderbergh
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· crime Β· drama

Both are built on the same subject: murder

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

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Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 Β· dir. Drew Goddard
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mystery Β· crime

Crime built on grit, twice over

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

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Lucky Number Slevin
2006 Β· dir. Paul McGuigan
β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

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Hyena
2015 Β· dir. Gerard Johnson
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.2crime Β· drama Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: drugs

Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 Β· dir. Adrian Panek
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.4crime Β· thriller Β· mystery

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

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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Suburra
2015 Β· dir. Stefano Sollima
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.4crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mafia

A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.

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The Third Murder
2017 Β· dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.7drama Β· mystery Β· crime

Both lean on grit more than on thriller

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

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