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Movies that feel like Tell No One (2006)

If you loved Tell No One, the closest films we have are Mystic River (2003), Lantana (2001) and Lucky Number Slevin (2006). All three share Tell No One's contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Shout! Factory Amazon Channel, Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads and others, checked against today's data.

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

πŸ… 93% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Guillaume Canetcontemplativetensegrittytwistymelancholyromantic
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If Tell No One hit the spot, these will too

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Mystic River
2003 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.9thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Both built around grief

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

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Lantana
2001 Β· dir. Ray Lawrence
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.2crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Disappearance is the engine of both

The difference: None of the tension that defines Tell No One

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

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Lucky Number Slevin
2006 Β· dir. Paul McGuigan
β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Contemplative and tense in the same breath

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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Thief
1981 Β· dir. Michael Mann
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.4crime Β· thriller Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: grief

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1980s show

Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.

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The Bone Collector
1999 Β· dir. Phillip Noyce
πŸ… 30%β˜… 6.7crime Β· thriller Β· drama

Both land grit and twists at once

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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 Sixth Sense
1999 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 86%β˜… 8.2mystery Β· thriller Β· drama

Both keep circling back to mortality

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

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Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 Β· dir. Drew Goddard
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mystery Β· crime

Both trade on stillness more than on being drama

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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Frailty
2002 Β· dir. Bill Paxton
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7.2drama Β· thriller Β· crime

The same mix in both: melancholy, then romance

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
2016 Β· dir. Douglas Mackinnon
β˜… 8crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Thriller built on tension, twice over

The difference: Plays it as tv movie more than Tell No One does

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special.

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Blood Simple
1985 Β· dir. Joel Coen
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.5crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

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Insomnia
2002 Β· dir. Christopher Nolan
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2thriller Β· crime Β· drama

Love sits at the heart of each

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

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Tuner
2026 Β· dir. Daniel Roher
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.2crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Romantic mystery, and it commits to that

A talented piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.

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