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Movies that feel like Kahaani (2012)

If you loved Kahaani, the closest films we have are The Hidden Face (2011), A Hard Day (2014) and Rojo (2018). All three share Kahaani's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sujoy Ghoshtwistytense

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The Hidden Face
2011 · dir. Andrés Baiz
7.3thriller · mystery

The same mix in both: twists, then tension

A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

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A Hard Day
2014 · dir. Kim Seong-hun
🍅 82%7.2crime · thriller · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: police corruption

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Kahaani does

After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.

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

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Kahaani does

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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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 · dir. Juan José Campanella
🍅 89%8.2mystery · thriller · drama

Common ground: the investigation

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

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

Tense thriller in both cases

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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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 88%6.7thriller · mystery

Mystery built on twists, twice over

The difference: 78 years apart, and the 1930s show

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

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Drishyam
2015 · dir. Nishikant Kamat
🍅 75%8.2mystery · thriller · drama

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.

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Saboteur
1942 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 81%7.1thriller · mystery

Both are mystery through and through

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

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

The same thriller instincts

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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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
6.8horror · mystery · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the investigation

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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Le Corbeau
1943 · dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
🍅 97%7.8mystery · drama · thriller

Both play mystery straight

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.

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Marshland
2014 · dir. Alberto Rodríguez
🍅 91%7.2crime · mystery · thriller

Thriller approached the same way

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.

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