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Movies that feel likeMulholland Drive (2001)

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

If you loved Mulholland Drive, the closest films we have are Cube (1998), Lost Highway (1997) and Joint Security Area (2000). All three share Mulholland Drive's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Sound of My Voice (2011).

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Lynchtensecontemplativetwistycerebral
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If Mulholland Drive hit the spot, these will too

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Cube
1998 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 61%★ 7.1thriller · science fiction · mystery

A cerebral, twisty puzzle where the rules of reality keep shifting

The difference: A claustrophobic trap-room thriller, not a dreamlike identity mystery

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

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Lost Highway
1997 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 70%★ 7.6drama · thriller · mystery

Lynch's own dream-logic playbook — doppelgangers, dread and dissolving identity

The difference: A jazz-musician nightmare of gangsters and prison, colder and darker

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

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

Tense where it counts, contemplative underneath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than Mulholland Drive does

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The lead investigator (Lee Young-ae) receives differing accounts from the two sides.

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Contact
1997 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 69%★ 7.5drama · science fiction · mystery

Twisty and cerebral in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than Mulholland Drive does

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

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The Bourne Identity
2002 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 84%★ 7.8action · mystery · thrillerNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: amnesia

The difference: Sits closer to action than Mulholland Drive does

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?

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Limitless
2011 · dir. Neil Burger
🍅 68%★ 7.4thriller · mystery · science fiction

Tense thriller in both cases

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

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The Call
2020 · dir. Lee Chung-hyun
🍅 46%★ 7.1thriller · mystery · science fictionNetflix

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.

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Unbreakable
2000 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 71%★ 7.3thriller · drama · mystery

Drama built on stillness, twice over

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

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The Village
2004 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 43%★ 6.6drama · mystery · thrillerHulu

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

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The Firm
1993 · dir. Sydney Pollack
🍅 77%★ 6.9drama · mystery · thrillerMaxParamount+

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...

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Sound of My Voice
2011 · dir. Zal Batmanglij
🍅 76%★ 6.6science fiction · drama · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

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

Twisty thriller 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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