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Movies that feel likeMurder on the Orient Express (2017)

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

If you loved Murder on the Orient Express, the closest films we have are The Third Murder (2017), Brick (2006) and Mother (2009). All three share Murder on the Orient Express' twisty and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is After Dark, My Sweet (1990).

🍅 60% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kenneth Branaghtwistycontemplativegritty
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Death on the Nile (2022) · A Haunting in Venice (2023)

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

A killing whose truth keeps shifting under questioning

The difference: Japanese legal drama — ambiguity instead of answers

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

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

A methodical sleuth working a closed world of suspects

The difference: High-school noir experiment — stylized slang, no glamour

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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Mother
2009 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 96%★ 7.7crime · drama · mystery

An amateur detective who will not accept the official story

The difference: Bong's dark obsessive spiral — disturbing, not plush

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.

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The Imposter
2012 · dir. Bart Layton
🍅 95%★ 7.4documentary · mystery · crimePrime Video

A deception so audacious it rewires the whole case

The difference: An actual documentary — reality outdoes fiction

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

Twelve strangers in one room arguing a killing's truth

The difference: Russian jury epic — nearly three hours of talk

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

An investigation exposing how institutions bury truth

The difference: True-crime anguish — a mother's ordeal, no cozy puzzle

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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The White Ribbon
2009 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 85%★ 7.8drama · mystery

Both land twists and stillness at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

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

A weathered investigator following a murder's grim thread

The difference: Grimy street-level noir — no drawing-room reveal

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

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

Mystery built on grit, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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

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The Hateful Eight
2015 · dir. Quentin Tarantino
🍅 74%★ 7.8drama · mystery · western

Strangers snowbound together, each hiding lethal secrets

The difference: Tarantino's slow fuse to carnage — profane and gory

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

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Drishyam
2015 · dir. Nishikant Kamat
🍅 64%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · drama

A cat-and-mouse between investigators and a careful mind

The difference: Told from the cover-up's side — the puzzle inverts

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

Twisty drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Played as thriller first

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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