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Movies that feel like The Gift (2015)

If you loved The Gift, the closest films we have are Leave the World Behind (2023), The Housemaid (2025) and Rojo (2018). All three share The Gift's tense 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 Netflix, Paramount Plus Premium and Starz and others, checked against today's data.

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joel Edgertontensetwistycontemplativeunsettling
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If The Gift hit the spot, these will too

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Leave the World Behind
2023 · dir. Sam Esmail
🍅 73%6.4drama · mystery · thriller

Tense and twisty in the same breath

A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.

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The Housemaid
2025 · dir. Paul Feig
🍅 74%6.7mystery · thriller

One thread runs through both: psychological thriller

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

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: husband wife relationship

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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Gone Girl
2014 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 88%8.1mystery · thriller · drama

Common ground: psychological thriller

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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The Invisible Guest
2017 · dir. Oriol Paulo
🍅 67%8drama · mystery · thriller

The same mix in both: stillness, then unease

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.

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

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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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Compliance
2012 · dir. Craig Zobel
🍅 89%6.4drama · thriller

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.

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Shutter Island
2010 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 69%8.2drama · thriller · mystery

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

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Crimson Peak
2015 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 72%6.5horror · mystery · romance

Unsettling thriller in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to horror than The Gift does

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

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The Guilty
2021 · dir. Antoine Fuqua
🍅 73%6.3drama · thriller

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.

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Escape Room
2019 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 51%6.4horror · mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: chicago, illinois

Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 85%6.7horror · mystery · thriller

Mystery built on twists, twice over

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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