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Movies that feel likeNerve (2016)

Industrious high school senior Vee Delmonico has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.

If you loved Nerve, the closest films we have are Enola Holmes (2020), The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014) and The Third Murder (2017). All three share Nerve's twisty and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is 12 (2007).

πŸ… 66% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Ariel Schulmantwistyepicgritty
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix Β· HBO Max Β· Amazon Prime Video

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Enola Holmes
2020 Β· dir. Harry Bradbeer
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.6adventure Β· mystery Β· crimeNetflix

Twisty where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
2014 Β· dir. Daniel Geller
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.7documentary Β· mystery Β· history

Mystery with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than Nerve does

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.

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The Third Murder
2017 Β· dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.7drama Β· mystery Β· crime

Twisty crime in both cases

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than Nerve does

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

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Murder on the Orient Express
2017 Β· dir. Kenneth Branagh
πŸ… 60%β˜… 6.5mystery Β· drama Β· crimeMax

Gritty adventure, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Nerve does

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

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The Imposter
2012 Β· dir. Bart Layton
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.4documentary Β· mystery Β· crimePrime Video

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

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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Brick
2006 Β· dir. Rian Johnson
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.1drama Β· mystery Β· crime

Crime built on grit, twice over

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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The Girl in the Fog
2017 Β· dir. Donato Carrisi
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.8mystery Β· thriller Β· crime

The mystery is handled with the same confidence

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

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Mother
2009 Β· dir. Bong Joon Ho
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both know what they want from crime

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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12
2007 Β· dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7.5crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Mystery of the same temperament

A loose remake of β€œ12 Angry Men”, β€œ12” 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 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 61%β˜… 7.7crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both play crime straight

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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Marshland
2014 Β· dir. Alberto RodrΓ­guez
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.2crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

The same mystery instincts

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.

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A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 Β· dir. Scott Frank
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.5crime Β· drama Β· mystery

The same city underneath both: New York City

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

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