
Movies that feel like The Crimson Rivers (2000)
If you loved The Crimson Rivers, the closest films we have are The Girl in the Fog (2017), L.A. Confidential (1997) and Marshland (2014). All three share The Crimson Rivers' gritty and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.
If The Crimson Rivers hit the spot, these will too

Gritty and twisty in the same breath
The difference: Not nearly as dread-soaked as The Crimson Rivers

The same two preoccupations: detective, and corpse
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

One thread runs through both: serial killer

Both keep coming back to the same thing: serial killer
The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Crimson Rivers does

Common ground: the investigation

Both are built on the same subject: murder

The same preoccupation in both: detective

Both are built on the same subject: the investigation
The difference: Leans harder into horror than The Crimson Rivers does

Common ground: murder

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases
The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Both lean on grit more than on mystery

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases
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