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Movies that feel like Bacurau (2019)

If you loved Bacurau, the closest films we have are The Girl in the Fog (2017), Marshland (2014) and Colors of Evil: Red (2024). All three share Bacurau's twisty and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kleber Mendonça Filhotwistygrittytense
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If Bacurau hit the spot, these will too

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

The same mix in both: twists, then grit

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Bacurau does

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

Mystery with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

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 Secret Agent
2025 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
7.2thriller · drama · crime

Both are Kleber Mendonça Filho's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Not nearly as twisty as Bacurau

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

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Neighboring Sounds
2012 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 91%7.1thriller · drama · crime

The same hand behind both of them: Kleber Mendonça Filho

The difference: Missing the twists of Bacurau

An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.

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Drishyam
2015 · dir. Nishikant Kamat
🍅 75%8.2mystery · thriller · drama

Western built on grit, twice over

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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A Hard Day
2014 · dir. Kim Seong-hun
🍅 82%7.2crime · thriller · mystery

Tense mystery, and it commits to that

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.

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

Twisty 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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Death on the Nile
2022 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 62%6.3mystery · crime · thriller

Same instincts, 3 years apart

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2009 · dir. Daniel Alfredson
🍅 53%7.3action · thriller · crime

Different title, same corner of the shelf

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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Wind River
2017 · dir. Taylor Sheridan
🍅 87%7.7crime · mystery · thriller

Cut from the same thriller cloth

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

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The Imposter
2012 · dir. Bart Layton
🍅 95%7.4documentary · mystery · crime

Both are mystery through and through

In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

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