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Movies that feel like Colors of Evil: Red (2024)

If you loved Colors of Evil: Red, the closest films we have are The Girl in the Fog (2017), Drishyam (2015) and A Hard Day (2014). All three share Colors of Evil: Red's gritty and tense 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, Hulu and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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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If Colors of Evil: Red hit the spot, these will too

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The Girl in the Fog
2017 Β· dir. Donato Carrisi
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.8mystery Β· thriller Β· crime

The same mix in both: grit, then tension

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

One thread runs through both: police

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Colors of Evil: Red does

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 Β· dir. Kim Seong-hun
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.2crime Β· thriller Β· mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: police

The difference: Sits closer to action than Colors of Evil: Red does

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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Marshland
2014 Β· dir. Alberto RodrΓ­guez
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.2crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Crime built on twists, twice over

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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Bacurau
2019 Β· dir. Kleber MendonΓ§a Filho
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.3mystery Β· western Β· thriller

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertΓ£o, 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.

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Death on the Nile
2022 Β· dir. Kenneth Branagh
πŸ… 62%β˜… 6.3mystery Β· crime Β· thriller

Tense mystery, and it commits to that

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 Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.3crime Β· thriller Β· mystery

Twisty crime in both cases

The difference: 97 years apart, and the 1920s show

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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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 Β· dir. Fritz Lang
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.9crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both lean on grit more than on thriller

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

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

The difference: Not nearly as tense as Colors of Evil: Red

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

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Everybody Knows
2018 Β· dir. Asghar Farhadi
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.9crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both lean on tension more than on crime

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

Cut from the same thriller cloth

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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Kahaani
2012 Β· dir. Sujoy Ghosh
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1mystery Β· thriller

Both are mystery through and through

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

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