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Movies that feel like Brick (2006)

If you loved Brick, the closest films we have are Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Changeling (2008) and After Dark, My Sweet (1990). All three share Brick's contemplative 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 HBO Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 79% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Rian Johnsoncontemplativetwistygritty

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Murder on the Orient Express
2017 Β· dir. Kenneth Branagh
πŸ… 60%β˜… 6.5mystery Β· drama Β· crime

The same two preoccupations: investigation, and murder

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

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Changeling
2008 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 61%β˜… 7.7crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

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After Dark, My Sweet
1990 Β· dir. James Foley
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.5crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both trade on grit more than on being drama

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

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The Hateful Eight
2015 Β· dir. Quentin Tarantino
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.8drama Β· mystery Β· western

The same preoccupation in both: whodunit

The difference: Plays it as western more than Brick does

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

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Gone Baby Gone
2007 Β· dir. Ben Affleck
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.6crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Murder sits at the heart of each

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasonsβ€”they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.

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

Contemplative mystery in both cases

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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Lantana
2001 Β· dir. Ray Lawrence
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.2crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both built around disappearance

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

Crime built on twists, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Gritty drama, and it commits to that

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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A Prophet
2009 Β· dir. Jacques Audiard
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.8crime Β· drama

Both keep circling back to drugs

The difference: None of the twists that defines Brick

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.

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Frozen River
2008 Β· dir. Courtney Hunt
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.1drama Β· crime

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A financially strapped mother joins a Mohawk woman to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.

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Winter's Bone
2010 Β· dir. Debra Granik
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.1drama Β· mystery

Twisty mystery in both cases

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.

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