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Movies that feel like Flightplan (2005)

If you loved Flightplan, the closest films we have are Tell No One (2006), The Vanishing (1988) and Lantana (2001). All three share Flightplan's twisty and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and Apple TV and others, checked against today's data.

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.

πŸ… 36% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Robert Schwentketensecontemplativetwistymelancholyromantic

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Tell No One
2006 Β· dir. Guillaume Canet
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.5drama Β· thriller Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: grief

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

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The Vanishing
1988 Β· dir. George Sluizer
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7thriller Β· mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: grief

The difference: Missing the stillness of Flightplan

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor.

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

Contemplative and twisty in the same breath

The difference: Not nearly as tense as Flightplan

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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A Haunting in Venice
2023 Β· dir. Kenneth Branagh
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.5mystery Β· thriller Β· crime

Both land tension and melancholy at once

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Flightplan does

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween sΓ©ance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

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Mystic River
2003 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.9thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Both lean on romance more than on thriller

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

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Searching
2018 Β· dir. Aneesh Chaganty
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: missing child and missing daughter

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

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City of Men
2007 Β· dir. Paulo Morelli
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.2drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

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21 Grams
2003 Β· dir. Alejandro G. IΓ±Γ‘rritu
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.6drama Β· crime Β· thriller

Tense mystery in both cases

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English Γ©migrΓ©; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

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Nobody Knows
2004 Β· dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8drama

Drama built on melancholy, twice over

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

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The Sixth Sense
1999 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 86%β˜… 8.2mystery Β· thriller Β· drama

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

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Atonement
2007 Β· dir. Joe Wright
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Mystery with a pulse of romance, in both cases

A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

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Lilting
2014 Β· dir. Hong Khaou
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.2drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

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