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Movies that feel likeThe Batman (2022)

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.

If you loved The Batman, the closest films we have are Marshland (2014), Colors of Evil: Red (2024) and Zodiac (2007). All three share The Batman'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).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Matt Reevesgrittytwistytense
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu

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

Detectives wading through institutional rot to catch a killer

The difference: Sun-bleached Spanish realism — no cowl, no Gothic scale

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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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 · dir. Adrian Panek
🍅 80%★ 6.4crime · thriller · mysteryNetflix

A murder investigation that keeps pulling up buried secrets

The difference: A modest TV-movie feel next to Reeves's craft

When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.

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Zodiac
2007 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 90%★ 7.7crime · mystery · thrillerParamount+

Obsessive detective work against a killer who wants an audience

The difference: Patient and unglamorous — no action, no cape, no catharsis

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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Death on the Nile
2022 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 62%★ 6.3mystery · crime · thrillerHulu

A puzzle assembled clue by clue by a sleuth enjoying the show

The difference: Glossy period escapism, no dread and no urban decay

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

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

Cold methodical digging into a powerful family's buried rot

The difference: Nastier and more explicit, without any comic-book scaffolding

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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The Girl in the Fog
2017 · dir. Donato Carrisi
🍅 75%★ 6.8mystery · thriller · crime

A fog-bound mystery where the investigator is part of the puzzle

The difference: Talky and slow-burn — atmosphere over action beats

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

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Red Sparrow
2018 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 45%★ 6.6thriller · mystery

Gritty and twisty in the same breath

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.

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

Organized crime made cold, bodily and impossible to walk away from

The difference: Tight and restrained, with sudden violence instead of spectacle

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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Bacurau
2019 · dir. Juliano Dornelles
🍅 93%★ 7.3mystery · western · thrillerRent or buy

Slow-mounting menace in a place the powerful wrote off

The difference: A genre-bending western freak-out — nothing procedural about it

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

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

A cat-and-mouse built on meticulous planning and misdirection

The difference: You root for the cover-up — family stakes, no vigilante

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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A Hard Day
2014 · dir. Kim Seong-hun
🍅 82%★ 7.2crime · thriller · mystery

Corrupt cops, escalating dread and a tormentor who's always ahead

The difference: Darkly funny where Gotham is grave — and no hero to root for

After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.

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Se7en
1995 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 84%★ 8.6crime · mystery · thrillerParamount+

A rain-soaked city and a killer who treats murder as a sermon

The difference: Far more punishing, with no hero fantasy to soften it

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.

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