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Movies that feel like Lantana (2001)

If you loved Lantana, the closest films we have are Tell No One (2006), Mystic River (2003) and Brick (2006). All three share Lantana's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel and Cinemax Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 90% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Ray Lawrencegrittycontemplativetwistymelancholyromantic

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

Grief runs into disappearance in each of them

The difference: Leans thriller where Lantana does not

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

Grief is the engine of both

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

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

Both built around investigation

The difference: None of the melancholy that defines Lantana

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

The same mix in both: grit, then stillness

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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 Β· dir. Kenneth Branagh
πŸ… 60%β˜… 6.5mystery Β· drama Β· crime

Investigation sits at the heart of each

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

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After Dark, My Sweet
1990 Β· dir. James Foley
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.5crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Twisty crime in both cases

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

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Gone Baby Gone
2007 Β· dir. Ben Affleck
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.6crime Β· drama Β· mystery

The same preoccupation in both: police

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasonsβ€”they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.

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Batman Begins
2005 Β· dir. Christopher Nolan
πŸ… 85%β˜… 8.2drama Β· crime Β· action

Both land melancholy and romance at once

Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.

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The Godfather
1972 Β· dir. Francis Ford Coppola
πŸ… 97%β˜… 9.2drama Β· crime

Both trade on grit more than on being drama

The difference: A 1970s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

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

Both keep circling back to marriage crisis

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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Scarface
1983 Β· dir. Brian De Palma
πŸ… 77%β˜… 8.3action Β· crime Β· drama

Mystery with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.

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The Bone Collector
1999 Β· dir. Phillip Noyce
πŸ… 30%β˜… 6.7crime Β· thriller Β· drama

Crime built on twists, twice over

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.

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