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Movies that feel like The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014)

If you loved The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, the closest films we have are Nerve (2016), Enola Holmes (2020) and The Imposter (2012). All three share The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden's twisty and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV channel and Netflix and others, checked against today's data.

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.

πŸ… 83% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Daniel Gellertwistyepicgritty

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Nerve
2016 Β· dir. Henry Joost
πŸ… 66%β˜… 6.5mystery Β· adventure Β· crime

Twisty where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: Played as adventure first

Industrious high school senior Vee Delmonico has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.

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Enola Holmes
2020 Β· dir. Harry Bradbeer
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.6adventure Β· mystery Β· crime

Both trade on grit more than on being mystery

While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

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The Imposter
2012 Β· dir. Bart Layton
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.4documentary Β· mystery Β· crime

Kidnapping and biography, at the center of both

The difference: Without the same scale

In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

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Marshland
2014 Β· dir. Alberto RodrΓ­guez
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.2crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both built around police investigation

The difference: Lighter on 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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Murder on the Orient Express
2017 Β· dir. Kenneth Branagh
πŸ… 60%β˜… 6.5mystery Β· drama Β· crime

Twisty crime, and it commits to that

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

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The Third Murder
2017 Β· dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.7drama Β· mystery Β· crime

Documentary with a pulse of grit, in both cases

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

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Changeling
2008 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 61%β˜… 7.7crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Biography sits at the heart of each

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.8thriller Β· crime Β· mystery

Twisty history in both cases

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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Wind River
2017 Β· dir. Taylor Sheridan
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.7crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Mystery built on grit, twice over

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

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Death on the Nile
2022 Β· dir. Kenneth Branagh
πŸ… 62%β˜… 6.3mystery Β· crime Β· thriller

The same mystery instincts

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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Zodiac
2007 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.7crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Cut from the same crime cloth

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

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Brick
2006 Β· dir. Rian Johnson
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.1drama Β· mystery Β· crime

Both are mystery through and through

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

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