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Movies that feel like Marshland (2014)

If you loved Marshland, the closest films we have are The Batman (2022), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and Wind River (2017). All three share Marshland's gritty and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max and Netflix and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alberto Rodríguezgrittytwistytense

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If Marshland hit the spot, these will too

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The Batman
2022 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 85%7.8crime · mystery · thriller

Both keep circling back to serial killer

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 86%7.8thriller · crime · mystery

Gritty and twisty in the same breath

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

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Wind River
2017 · dir. Taylor Sheridan
🍅 87%7.7crime · mystery · thriller

Tense crime in both cases

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

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Zodiac
2007 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 90%7.7crime · mystery · thriller

Both trade on grit more than on being mystery

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

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Eastern Promises
2007 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 89%7.6thriller · crime · mystery

Thriller built on twists, twice over

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

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Death on the Nile
2022 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 62%6.3mystery · crime · thriller

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

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Se7en
1995 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 84%8.6crime · mystery · thriller

Both built around serial killer

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

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L.A. Confidential
1997 · dir. Curtis Hanson
🍅 99%8.2crime · mystery · thriller

Gritty mystery, and it commits to that

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

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

Both trade on twists more than on being thriller

The difference: Leans action where Marshland does not

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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Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 · dir. Drew Goddard
🍅 75%7.1thriller · mystery · crime

Tense crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Plays it as drama more than Marshland does

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

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Blow Out
1981 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 88%7.4crime · mystery · thriller

Both are crime through and through

The difference: A 1980s film, from a different era of filmmaking

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

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Lucky Number Slevin
2006 · dir. Paul McGuigan
7.7drama · thriller · crime

The same mystery instincts

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

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