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Movies that feel likeEnola Holmes (2020)

While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

If you loved Enola Holmes, the closest films we have are Nerve (2016), The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014) and The Girl in the Fog (2017). All three share Enola Holmes' twisty and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Third Murder (2017).

πŸ… 91% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Harry Bradbeerepictwistygritty
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Enola Holmes 2 (2022)

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Nerve
2016 Β· dir. Ariel Schulman
πŸ… 66%β˜… 6.5mystery Β· adventure Β· crime

Epic where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Industrious high school senior Vee Delmonico has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.

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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
2014 Β· dir. Daniel Geller
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.7documentary Β· mystery Β· history

Gritty mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than Enola Holmes does

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.

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

Crime built on twists, twice over

The difference: Trades the scale of Enola Holmes for an angle of its own

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

Both are built on the same subject: detective

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than Enola Holmes does

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

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

Adventure with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 Β· dir. Adrian Panek
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.4crime Β· thriller Β· mysteryNetflix

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

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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Red Sparrow
2018 Β· dir. Francis Lawrence
πŸ… 45%β˜… 6.6thriller Β· mystery

Gritty adventure in both cases

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.

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The Imposter
2012 Β· dir. Bart Layton
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.4documentary Β· mystery Β· crimePrime Video

The crime is handled with the same confidence

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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Brick
2006 Β· dir. Rian Johnson
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.1drama Β· mystery Β· crime

The same mystery instincts

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

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Mother
2009 Β· dir. Bong Joon Ho
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Cut from the same crime cloth

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

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12
2007 Β· dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7.5crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both play mystery straight

A loose remake of β€œ12 Angry Men”, β€œ12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

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

Crime approached the same way

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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