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Movies that feel like The Coldest Game (2019)

If you loved The Coldest Game, the closest films we have are Breaking Surface (2020), The Hater (2020) and To Kill a Man (2014). All three share The Coldest Game's contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and ARROW and others, checked against today's data.

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

🍅 17% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Łukasz Kośmickicontemplativetense

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Breaking Surface
2020 · dir. Joachim Hedén
🍅 100%6.1drama · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: affectation

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.

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The Hater
2020 · dir. Jan Komasa
🍅 87%7.1drama · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: warsaw, poland

A duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences.

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To Kill a Man
2014 · dir. Alejandro Fernández Almendras
6.3thriller · drama

Both land stillness and tension at once

Jorge is a peaceful hard-working man who seeks a simple, quiet life for himself and his family. One day, he is mugged and humiliated by a gang of thugs led by Kalule, a delinquent from his neighborhood. This event infuriates his son as much for Jorge’s meek acceptance as for the act itself. The son, looking for retribution, ends up getting himself shot. Kalule is sent to jail and when he gets out 18 months later, begins a campaign of terror against Jorge and his family. The authorities do nothing, so Jorge decides to take matters into his own hands.

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A Hijacking
2012 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 96%7.1thriller · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.

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Tunnel
2016 · dir. Kim Seong-hun
🍅 100%6.8thriller · drama

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help.

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Red Dot
2021 · dir. Alain Darborg
🍅 75%5.5thriller · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

On a hiking trip to rekindle their marriage, a couple find themselves fleeing for their lives in the unforgiving wilderness from an unknown shooter.

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A Wednesday!
2008 · dir. Neeraj Pandey
8.1drama · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Prakash Rathod, a retired police commissioner recounts the most memorable case of his career wherein he was informed about a bomb scare in Mumbai by an ordinary commoner.

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The Place
2017 · dir. Paolo Genovese
7drama · thriller

The drama is handled with the same confidence

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

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Nowhere
2023 · dir. Albert Pintó
6.3thriller · drama

Thriller of the same temperament

A young pregnant woman named Mia escapes from a country at war by hiding in a maritime container aboard a cargo ship. After a violent storm, Mia gives birth to the child while lost at sea, where she must fight to survive.

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Furie
2019 · dir. Le Van Kiet
🍅 95%6.3action · drama · thriller

Both play drama straight

The difference: Leans harder into action than The Coldest Game does

When a little girl is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, they soon find they messed with the wrong child. Her mother, a notorious former gang leader, is close on their trail and will go to any lengths to bring her child home.

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Fractured
2019 · dir. Brad Anderson
🍅 56%6.5thriller · drama

Both are thriller through and through

Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray's family ever being checked in.

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Emilia Pérez
2024 · dir. Jacques Audiard
5.4drama · thriller

Both working the same drama territory

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

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