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Movies that feel likeSe7en (1995)

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

If you loved Se7en, the closest films we have are Zodiac (2007), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and L.A. Confidential (1997). All three share Se7en's gritty and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Drishyam (2015).

🍅 84% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Finchergrittytwistytense
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Zodiac
2007 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 90%★ 7.7crime · mystery · thrillerParamount+

Fincher's other serial-killer obsession — method, patience, and creeping rot

The difference: Decades-spanning procedural; the answer never comes

Police conduct a manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 86%★ 7.8thriller · crime · mysteryNetflixApple TV+

Fincher's ice-cold investigation into human depravity

The difference: A cold case in Sweden, an avenger not a victim

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

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L.A. Confidential
1997 · dir. Curtis Hanson
🍅 99%★ 8.2crime · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Detectives descending through a city's glossy surface into its sewer

The difference: Period-noir corruption over serial-killer dread

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

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The Batman
2022 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 85%★ 7.8crime · mystery · thrillerMax

A killer staging moral lessons and detectives forced to read them

The difference: Se7en wearing a cowl — Gotham as the rain-soaked city

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

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Marshland
2014 · dir. Alberto Rodríguez
🍅 91%★ 7.2crime · mystery · thriller

Two mismatched cops working a case in a landscape already rotten

The difference: Political backdrop takes over — less dread, more history

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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Eastern Promises
2007 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 89%★ 7.6thriller · crime · mysteryPrime Video

An underworld with its own liturgy of violence

The difference: Mob machinery, not a killer's design

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

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The Bone Collector
1999 · dir. Phillip Noyce
🍅 30%★ 6.7crime · thriller · dramaPrime VideoStarz

A staged-clue killer taunting the detectives who follow

The difference: Forensic-thriller mechanics, warmer partnership

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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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 · dir. Juan José Campanella
🍅 89%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · dramaHulu

Both are working the same pair: police, the investigation

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Se7en does

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

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The Crimson Rivers
2000 · dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
🍅 68%★ 6.9crime · mystery · thriller

Two cases knotting into one killer's grand, grisly design

The difference: Alpine pulp — the style holds, the logic frays by the end

Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.

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

A cat-and-mouse of wits where every clue is a move in a game

The difference: Inverted sympathies — you follow the cover-up, not the hunt

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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Lucky Number Slevin
2006 · dir. Paul McGuigan
★ 7.7drama · thriller · crime

A wrong-man plot tightening like a noose

The difference: Stylized twist-delivery, tone almost playful

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

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Identity
2003 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 64%★ 7.3mystery · thriller

Strangers, storms, and a body count with a hidden logic

The difference: A puzzle-box gimmick over moral horror

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

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