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Movies that feel like Innocence (2005)

If you loved Innocence, the closest films we have are Winter's Bone (2010), The Village (2004) and Brick (2006). All three share Innocence's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Howdy Amazon Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel and Cinemax Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

At a peculiar all-girls academy, new arrivals, including Iris, are delivered in coffins. Guided by enigmatic teachers, the students dance through enchanted woods by day, while the night unveils sinister lessons that blur innocence and awakening.

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lucile Hadžihalilovićcontemplativetwisty

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If Innocence hit the spot, these will too

Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Age of Innocence (1993)

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Winter's Bone
2010 · dir. Debra Granik
🍅 94%7.1drama · mystery

The same mix in both: stillness, then twists

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.

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The Village
2004 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 43%6.6drama · mystery · thriller

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

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Brick
2006 · dir. Rian Johnson
🍅 79%7.1drama · mystery · crime

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

The difference: Leans crime where Innocence does not

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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Unbreakable
2000 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 71%7.3thriller · drama · mystery

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Plays it as thriller more than Innocence does

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

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Changeling
2008 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 61%7.7crime · drama · mystery

Twisty mystery in both cases

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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Murder on the Orient Express
2017 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 60%6.5mystery · drama · crime

The same drama instincts

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

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The Hateful Eight
2015 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 74%7.8drama · mystery · western

Cut from the same mystery cloth

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

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The Third Murder
2017 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 87%6.7drama · mystery · crime

Drama approached the same way

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

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Citizen Kane
1941 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 99%8.2mystery · drama

Both are mystery through and through

The difference: 64 years apart, and the 1940s show

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

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Marjorie Prime
2017 · dir. Michael Almereyda
🍅 89%6.3drama · mystery · science fiction

Cut from the same drama cloth

A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.

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Rojo
2018 · dir. Benjamín Naishtat
🍅 96%6.3drama · mystery · thriller

Mystery approached the same way

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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After Dark, My Sweet
1990 · dir. James Foley
🍅 80%6.5crime · drama · mystery

Both are drama through and through

Three desperados try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

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