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Movies that feel like The Firm (1993)

If you loved The Firm, the closest films we have are All the President's Men (1976), Joint Security Area (2000) and Rojo (2018). All three share The Firm's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...

🍅 77% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sydney Pollackcontemplativetwistytense
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All the President's Men
1976 · dir. Alan J. Pakula
🍅 95%7.9drama · mystery · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: fbi

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

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Joint Security Area
2000 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 88%7.7drama · thriller · mystery

Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.

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Rojo
2018 · dir. Benjamín Naishtat
🍅 96%6.3drama · mystery · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: lawyer

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 2010s show

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

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The Name of the Rose
1986 · dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
🍅 74%7.7drama · thriller · mystery

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

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Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · dir. Sidney Lumet
🍅 89%7.2drama · thriller · mystery

Contemplative mystery, and it commits to that

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · dir. Tomas Alfredson
🍅 84%7drama · thriller · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

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The Village
2004 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 43%6.6drama · mystery · thriller

Drama built on tension, twice over

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

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Three Days of the Condor
1975 · dir. Sydney Pollack
🍅 88%7.4thriller · mystery

Sydney Pollack directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Missing the stillness of The Firm

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

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

Contemplative mystery in both cases

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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Exam
2009 · dir. Stuart Hazeldine
🍅 61%6.7thriller · mystery

Thriller built on twists, twice over

The difference: None of the stillness The Firm is built on

Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, where an armed guard keeps watch, they are given 80 minutes to answer one simple question.

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Unbreakable
2000 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 71%7.3thriller · drama · mystery

A 2000s answer to the same itch

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

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The Ghost Writer
2010 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 84%7.2thriller · mystery

The mystery is handled with the same confidence

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.

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