
Movies that feel like Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
If you loved Murder on the Orient Express, the closest films we have are All the President's Men (1976), The Name of the Rose (1986) and In the Heat of the Night (1967). All three share Murder on the Orient Express' contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.
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If Murder on the Orient Express hit the spot, these will too

Both land stillness and tension at once

Drama built on twists, twice over

The same preoccupation in both: whodunit
The difference: Leans further into crime

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller
The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Common ground: detective

Tense mystery in both cases

One thread runs through both: the investigation

Both are built on the same subject: the investigation
The difference: Lighter on stillness

Common ground in both: murder mystery and 1930s
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Both keep coming back to the same thing: whodunit

Drama with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Tense thriller, and it commits to that
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