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Movies that feel like All the President's Men (1976)

If you loved All the President's Men, the closest films we have are Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Name of the Rose (1986) and Joint Security Area (2000). All three share All the President's Men's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

πŸ… 95% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Alan J. Pakulacontemplativetwistytense

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Murder on the Orient Express
1974 Β· dir. Sidney Lumet
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.2drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Both land stillness and twists at once

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

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The Name of the Rose
1986 Β· dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Drama built on tension, twice over

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

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Joint Security Area
2000 Β· dir. Park Chan-wook
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Contemplative mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 2000s show

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.

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Le Corbeau
1943 Β· dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.8mystery Β· drama Β· thriller

Thriller with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.

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In the Heat of the Night
1967 Β· dir. Norman Jewison
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both lean on tension more than on drama

The difference: Leans harder into crime than All the President's Men does

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 Β· dir. Juan JosΓ© Campanella
πŸ… 89%β˜… 8.2mystery Β· thriller Β· drama

Contemplative mystery in both cases

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator BenjamΓ­n begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 Β· dir. Tomas Alfredson
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Twisty thriller in both cases

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

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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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: journalist

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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Rojo
2018 Β· dir. BenjamΓ­n Naishtat
πŸ… 96%β˜… 6.3drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

From the 2010s, and it lands the same way

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

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Three Days of the Condor
1975 Β· dir. Sydney Pollack
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.4thriller Β· mystery

Common ground: washington dc, usa

The difference: Missing the stillness of All the President's Men

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

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The Village
2004 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 43%β˜… 6.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

The mystery is handled with the same confidence

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

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The Parallax View
1974 Β· dir. Alan J. Pakula
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.1crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Alan J. Pakula directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the twists All the President's Men is built on

An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

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