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Movies that feel like Leave the World Behind (2023)

If you loved Leave the World Behind, the closest films we have are The Housemaid (2025), The Gift (2015) and Knock at the Cabin (2023). All three share Leave the World Behind's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sam Esmailcontemplativetwistytenseunsettling
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The Housemaid
2025 · dir. Paul Feig
🍅 74%6.7mystery · thriller

Twisty and tense in the same breath

The difference: Missing the stillness of Leave the World Behind

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.

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The Gift
2015 · dir. Joel Edgerton
🍅 92%7thriller · mystery · drama

Both land stillness and unease at once

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

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Knock at the Cabin
2023 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 67%6.1horror · mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: apocalypse

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as Leave the World Behind

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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 Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%5.5mystery · horror

Twisty mystery in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to horror than Leave the World Behind does

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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The Invisible Guest
2017 · dir. Oriol Paulo
🍅 67%8drama · mystery · thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.

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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%6.9mystery · horror · thriller

Unsettling mystery, and it commits to that

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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Crimson Peak
2015 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 72%6.5horror · mystery · romance

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

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The Guilty
2021 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 73%6.3drama · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · dir. Tomas Alfredson
🍅 84%7drama · thriller · mystery

Twisty drama in both cases

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

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The Girl in the Fog
2017 · dir. Donato Carrisi
🍅 75%6.8mystery · thriller · crime

Both working the same mystery territory

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

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The Nameless
1999 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 20%5.8thriller · mystery · horror

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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