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Movies that feel like Red Eye (2005)

If you loved Red Eye, the closest films we have are Pi (1998), Disturbia (2007) and Angels & Demons (2009). All three share Red Eye's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to find a way to warn the potential victims before it's too late.

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Wes Craventensetwistyparanoid
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Pi
1998 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 88%7.3mystery · drama · thriller

Tense and twisty in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Red Eye does

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

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Disturbia
2007 · dir. D.J. Caruso
🍅 69%6.8thriller · drama · mystery

Thriller with a pulse of paranoia, in both cases

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 problem—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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Angels & Demons
2009 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 36%6.7thriller · mystery

Tense mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Three Days of the Condor
1975 · dir. Sydney Pollack
🍅 88%7.4thriller · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

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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Blow Out
1981 · dir. Brian De Palma
🍅 88%7.4crime · mystery · thriller

Common ground: hitman

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

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The Commuter
2018 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 55%6.3action · thriller · mystery

Paranoid mystery in both cases

A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

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Foreign Correspondent
1940 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%7.4thriller · mystery · action

Both keep coming back to the same thing: captive

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

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

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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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Secret Window
2004 · dir. David Koepp
🍅 46%6.5mystery · thriller

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

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The Game
1997 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 77%7.7drama · thriller · mystery

The shared currency is paranoia

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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The Lady Vanishes
1938 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%7.7mystery · thriller

The same thriller instincts

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.

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Enemy
2014 · dir. Denis Villeneuve
🍅 73%6.9thriller · mystery

Both are mystery through and through

A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

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