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Movies that feel like Mother (2009)

If you loved Mother, the closest films we have are Brick (2006), 12 (2007) and The Third Murder (2017). All three share Mother's gritty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium and Fandor and others, checked against today's data.

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bong Joon Hogrittycontemplativetwisty

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Brick
2006 · dir. Rian Johnson
🍅 79%7.1drama · mystery · crime

The same preoccupation in both: murder

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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12
2007 · dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
🍅 76%7.5crime · drama · mystery

The same mix in both: grit, then stillness

A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

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The Third Murder
2017 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 87%6.7drama · mystery · crime

Both are built on the same subject: murder

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

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Changeling
2008 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 61%7.7crime · drama · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on crime

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

Drama built on grit, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Mother does

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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The Imposter
2012 · dir. Bart Layton
🍅 95%7.4documentary · mystery · crime

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Missing the stillness of Mother

In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

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After Dark, My Sweet
1990 · dir. James Foley
🍅 80%6.5crime · drama · mystery

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

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Winter's Bone
2010 · dir. Debra Granik
🍅 94%7.1drama · mystery

One thread runs through both: teenage girl

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 · dir. Niels Arden Oplev
🍅 85%7.8drama · thriller · crime

Gritty drama in both cases

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

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

Mystery with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 · dir. Scott Frank
🍅 68%6.5crime · drama · mystery

Crime with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

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Estômago: A Gastronomic Story
2008 · dir. Marcos Jorge
7.8drama · comedy · mystery

Cut from the same drama cloth

In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.

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