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Movies that feel like Pi (1998)

If you loved Pi, the closest films we have are The Game (1997), Disturbia (2007) and Unbreakable (2000). All three share Pi's twisty 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 fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium and Paramount Plus Essential and others, checked against today's data.

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

πŸ… 88% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Darren Aronofskytwistycontemplativetenseparanoid

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If Pi hit the spot, these will too

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The Game
1997 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Twisty and contemplative in the same breath

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

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Disturbia
2007 Β· dir. D.J. Caruso
πŸ… 69%β˜… 6.8thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

The same preoccupation in both: paranoia

Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problemβ€”he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.

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Unbreakable
2000 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7.3thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Both trade on tension more than on being mystery

The difference: Not nearly as paranoid as Pi

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead β€” 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 Tenant
1976 Β· dir. Roman Polanski
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.5thriller Β· mystery Β· drama

Both keep circling back to paranoia

The difference: A 1970s film, from a different era of filmmaking

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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The Village
2004 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 43%β˜… 6.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Drama built on twists, twice over

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Searching
2018 Β· dir. Aneesh Chaganty
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2010s show

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

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Shutter Island
2010 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 69%β˜… 8.2drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Mystery with a pulse of tension, in both cases

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

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Angels & Demons
2009 Β· dir. Ron Howard
πŸ… 36%β˜… 6.7thriller Β· mystery

Paranoid thriller in both cases

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.

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Gone Girl
2014 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 88%β˜… 8.1mystery Β· thriller Β· drama

Drama built on twists, twice over

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2017 Β· dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Insanity is the engine of both

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.

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Eyes Wide Shut
1999 Β· dir. Stanley Kubrick
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7.5drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

New York City shapes both of them

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

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Three Days of the Condor
1975 Β· dir. Sydney Pollack
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.4thriller Β· mystery

Paranoid mystery in both cases

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

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