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Movies that feel like And Then There Were None (1945)

If you loved And Then There Were None, the closest films we have are Anatomy of a Murder (1959), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) and 12 (2007). All three share And Then There Were None's gritty and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. René Clairgrittycontemplativetwisty
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Anatomy of a Murder
1959 · dir. Otto Preminger
🍅 100%8crime · drama · mystery

Both land grit and stillness at once

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: doctor

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as And Then There Were None

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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12
2007 · dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
🍅 76%7.5crime · drama · mystery

Crime built on twists, twice over

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

A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

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The Third Murder
2017 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 87%6.7drama · mystery · crime

Gritty drama, and it commits to that

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

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Rashomon
1950 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 98%8.1crime · drama · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

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After Dark, My Sweet
1990 · dir. James Foley
🍅 80%6.5crime · drama · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on crime

Three desperados try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

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Brick
2006 · dir. Rian Johnson
🍅 79%7.1drama · mystery · crime

One thread runs through both: whodunit

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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Le Corbeau
1943 · dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
🍅 97%7.8mystery · drama · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: doctor

The difference: Missing the grit of And Then There Were None

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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Gaslight
1944 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 94%7.8thriller · drama · mystery

Gritty drama in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than And Then There Were None does

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

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In the Heat of the Night
1967 · dir. Norman Jewison
🍅 96%7.9crime · drama · mystery

Common ground: whodunit

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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High Plains Drifter
1973 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 91%7.4western · drama · mystery

Mystery built on stillness, twice over

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

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

A 1920s answer to the same itch

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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