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Movies that feel like Decision to Leave (2022)

If you loved Decision to Leave, the closest films we have are Suspicion (1941), To Catch a Thief (1955) and The Handmaiden (2016). All three share Decision to Leave's tense and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.

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Suspicion
1941 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 97%7.2mystery · romance · thriller

One thread runs through both: the investigation

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.

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To Catch a Thief
1955 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%7.4mystery · romance · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: police

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.

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The Handmaiden
2016 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 96%8.1thriller · drama · romance

Both are Park Chan-wook's work, and they rhyme

The difference: None of the twists Decision to Leave is built on

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.

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Joint Security Area
2000 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 88%7.7drama · thriller · mystery

Park Chan-wook working the same nerve twice

The difference: Missing the romance of Decision to Leave

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.

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Marnie
1964 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 78%7.1thriller · mystery · romance

The same mix in both: tension, then twists

Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.

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Young and Innocent
1937 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 100%6.8thriller · romance · mystery

Both land romance and tenderness at once

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.

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Notorious
1946 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 96%7.9romance · mystery · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

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The Body
2012 · dir. Oriol Paulo
7.6thriller · mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: detective and love

A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.

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Kahaani
2012 · dir. Sujoy Ghosh
🍅 100%8.1mystery · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the investigation

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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Burning Betrayal
2023 · dir. Diego Freitas
4.2drama · mystery · romance

Mystery built on twists, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Decision to Leave does

Babi discovers a betrayal by her long-term partner and decides to embark on a new adventure in life. On this journey, she meets judge Marco and they begin to live a story permeated by a lot of sexual tension.

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

Common ground: sea

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

Both lean on romance more than on romance

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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