
Movies that feel likeThe Girl on the Train (2016)
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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If The Girl on the Train hit the spot, these will too

Both are built on the same subject: obsession
The difference: Reviewed even better

Gritty where it counts, twisty underneath
The difference: Easier on the ideas than The Girl on the Train

Both keep coming back to the same thing: amnesia
The difference: Takes it somewhere less obsessive than The Girl on the Train does

Tense and obsessive in the same breath
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Gritty crime in both cases

Mystery built on twists, twice over

The same preoccupation in both: obsession
The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Girl on the Train does

The same city underneath both: New York City

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Mystery with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Both lean on twists more than on crime

Tense thriller in both cases
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