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Movies that feel like Rojo (2018)

If you loved Rojo, the closest films we have are Searching (2018), The Village (2004) and Unbreakable (2000). All three share Rojo's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads and Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Benjamín Naishtatcontemplativetwistytense

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Searching
2018 · dir. Aneesh Chaganty
🍅 92%7.6drama · mystery · thriller

Both keep circling back to disappearance

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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The Village
2004 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 43%6.6drama · mystery · thriller

Both land stillness and twists at once

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Unbreakable
2000 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 71%7.3thriller · drama · mystery

Tense drama, and it commits to that

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — 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 Killing of a Sacred Deer
2017 · dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
🍅 79%7drama · thriller · mystery

Both built around husband wife relationship

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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Gone Girl
2014 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 88%8.1mystery · thriller · drama

Disappearance sits at the heart of each

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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Thelma
2017 · dir. Joachim Trier
🍅 92%6.9drama · mystery · thriller

Mystery with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

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

Both trade on twists more than on being thriller

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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Shutter Island
2010 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 69%8.2drama · thriller · mystery

Tense drama 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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Pi
1998 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 88%7.3mystery · drama · thriller

Mystery built on stillness, twice over

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1990s show

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

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

Thriller built on twists, twice over

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

Tense drama in both cases

The difference: Leans crime where Rojo does not

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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The Bone Collector
1999 · dir. Phillip Noyce
🍅 30%6.7crime · thriller · drama

Both are drama through and through

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.

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