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Movies that feel likeInsomnia (2002)

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

If you loved Insomnia, the closest films we have are Carlito's Way (1993), Frailty (2002) and Fallen Angels (1995). All three share Insomnia's gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Insomnia (1997).

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Christopher Nolantensegrittycontemplativedreamlikeromantic
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If Insomnia hit the spot, these will too

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Carlito's Way
1993 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 84%★ 7.9crime · drama · thrillerPrime VideoStarz

Both are built on the same subject: love

The difference: Easier on the dream logic than Insomnia

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

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Frailty
2002 · dir. Bill Paxton
🍅 76%★ 7.2drama · thriller · crime

Both are working the same pair: fbi, flashback

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Insomnia does

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

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Fallen Angels
1995 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 96%★ 7.5action · romance · crimeMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love

The difference: Sits closer to action than Insomnia does

An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.

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Victoria
2015 · dir. Sebastian Schipper
🍅 82%★ 7.5crime · thriller · romance

Tense where it counts, gritty underneath

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

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Insomnia
1997 · dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg
🍅 95%★ 7.2thriller · crime · mysteryPrime Video

The same two preoccupations: detective, and the investigation

Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.

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Dial M for Murder
1954 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 90%★ 8.1thriller · crime · drama

The same preoccupation in both: blackmail

The difference: 48 years apart, and the 1950s show

When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

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Transporter 3
2008 · dir. Olivier Megaton
🍅 40%★ 6.1action · thriller · crime

Common ground: detective

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery and not let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.

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Underworld
2003 · dir. Len Wiseman
🍅 31%★ 7fantasy · action · thrillerStarz

Dreamlike and romantic in the same breath

Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.

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The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 · dir. Anthony Minghella
🍅 85%★ 7.4thriller · crime · dramaParamount+Starz

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

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Irreversible
2002 · dir. Gaspar Noé
🍅 60%★ 7.3drama · thriller · crime

One thread runs through both: homicide

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

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Memories of Murder
2003 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
★ 8.1crime · drama · thriller

One thread runs through both: the investigation

A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.

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Read My Lips
2001 · dir. Jacques Audiard
🍅 97%★ 7.3crime · drama · romance

Tense crime in both cases

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

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