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Movies that feel likeThe Girl on the Train (2016)

Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

If you loved The Girl on the Train, the closest films we have are Thelma (2017), The Girl in the Fog (2017) and Trance (2013). All three share The Girl on the Train's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Colors of Evil: Red (2024).

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Thelma
2017 Β· dir. Joachim Trier
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.9drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: obsession

The difference: Reviewed even better

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

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The Girl in the Fog
2017 Β· dir. Donato Carrisi
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.8mystery Β· thriller Β· crime

Gritty where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: Easier on the ideas than The Girl on the Train

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.

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Trance
2013 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 69%β˜… 6.9thriller Β· crime Β· mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: amnesia

The difference: Takes it somewhere less obsessive than The Girl on the Train does

A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

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Basic Instinct
1992 Β· dir. Paul Verhoeven
πŸ… 56%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mysteryParamount+

Tense and obsessive in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.

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Blue Velvet
1986 Β· dir. David Lynch
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.7mystery Β· thriller Β· crime

Gritty crime in both cases

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

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

Mystery built on twists, twice over

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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The Number 23
2007 Β· dir. Joel Schumacher
πŸ… 7%β˜… 6.4thriller Β· mystery Β· crime

The same preoccupation in both: obsession

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Girl on the Train does

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.

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8MM
1999 Β· dir. Joel Schumacher
πŸ… 23%β˜… 6.6thriller Β· crime Β· mystery

The same city underneath both: New York City

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

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A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 Β· dir. Scott Frank
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.5crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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

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Red Sparrow
2018 Β· dir. Francis Lawrence
πŸ… 45%β˜… 6.6thriller Β· mystery

Mystery with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 Β· dir. Adrian Panek
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.4crime Β· thriller Β· mysteryNetflix

Both lean on twists more than on crime

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

Tense 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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