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Movies that feel like Dark Waters (2019)

If you loved Dark Waters, the closest films we have are Foxcatcher (2014), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Hater (2020). All three share Dark Waters' contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Todd Haynescontemplativetense

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Foxcatcher
2014 · dir. Bennett Miller
🍅 88%7drama · thriller

Both are working the same pair: biography, a true story

The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

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Bridge of Spies
2015 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 91%7.6thriller · drama

One thread runs through both: lawyer

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

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The Hater
2020 · dir. Jan Komasa
🍅 87%7.1drama · thriller

Contemplative where it counts, tense underneath

A duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences.

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The Place
2017 · dir. Paolo Genovese
7drama · thriller

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

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Emilia Pérez
2024 · dir. Jacques Audiard
5.4drama · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: lawyer

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

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Tunnel
2016 · dir. Kim Seong-hun
🍅 100%6.8thriller · drama

Tense thriller in both cases

A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help.

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The Coldest Game
2019 · dir. Łukasz Kośmicki
🍅 17%6.2drama · thriller

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

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Juror #2
2024 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 93%7drama · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.

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Fractured
2019 · dir. Brad Anderson
🍅 56%6.5thriller · drama

The same drama instincts

Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray's family ever being checked in.

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A Hijacking
2012 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 96%7.1thriller · drama

Thriller in the same key

Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.

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Breaking Surface
2020 · dir. Joachim Hedén
🍅 100%6.1drama · thriller

Cut from the same drama cloth

Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.

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Locke
2014 · dir. Steven Knight
🍅 91%7.1drama · thriller

Thriller approached the same way

Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.

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