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Movies that feel like The Girl in the Fog (2017)

If you loved The Girl in the Fog, the closest films we have are The Little Stranger (2018), Burning Betrayal (2023) and Colors of Evil: Red (2024). All three share The Girl in the Fog's twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

🍅 75% Rotten Tomatoes6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Donato Carrisitwistytensegritty

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%5.5mystery · horror

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Not nearly as tense as The Girl in the Fog

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Burning Betrayal
2023 · dir. Diego Freitas
4.2drama · mystery · romance

Thriller built on twists, twice over

The difference: None of the tension The Girl in the Fog is built on

Babi discovers a betrayal by her long-term partner and decides to embark on a new adventure in life. On this journey, she meets judge Marco and they begin to live a story permeated by a lot of sexual tension.

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 · dir. Adrian Panek
🍅 80%6.4crime · thriller · mystery

The same mix in both: tension, then grit

When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.

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Death on the Nile
2022 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 62%6.3mystery · crime · thriller

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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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A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 · dir. Scott Frank
🍅 68%6.5crime · drama · mystery

Both lean on grit more than on mystery

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Girl in the Fog does

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

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A Writer's Odyssey
2021 · dir. Lu Yang
🍅 93%6.2fantasy · action · adventure

Products of the same few years

The difference: Missing the twists of The Girl in the Fog

Lu Kongwen is the author of a fantasy novel series following a heroic teenager, also named Kongwen, on a quest to end the tyrannical rule of Lord Redmane, under the guidance of a Black Armor. But through a strange twist of fate, the fantasy world of the novel begins to impact life in the real world, leading Guan Ning to accept a mission from Tu Ling to kill the author.

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Marshland
2014 · dir. Alberto Rodríguez
🍅 91%7.2crime · mystery · thriller

Twisty thriller in both cases

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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Confessions of an Invisible Girl
2021 · dir. Bruno Garotti
5.3comedy · drama

Contemporaries, and it shows

When the clever but socially-awkward Tetê joins a new school, she'll do anything to fit in. But the queen bee among her classmates has other ideas.

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The Purity of Vengeance
2018 · dir. Christoffer Boe
7.4crime · thriller · mystery

Tense crime in both cases

Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties.

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The Keeper of Lost Causes
2013 · dir. Mikkel Nørgaard
🍅 70%7.2thriller · mystery · crime

Mystery built on grit, twice over

Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.

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Bacurau
2019 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 93%7.3mystery · western · thriller

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 · dir. Niels Arden Oplev
🍅 85%7.8drama · thriller · crime

Both are crime through and through

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

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