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Movies that feel like The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)

If you loved The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the closest films we have are A Hard Day (2014), Marshland (2014) and Infernal Affairs (2002). All three share The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest's tense 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 Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) Β· The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)

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A Hard Day
2014 Β· dir. Kim Seong-hun
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.2crime Β· thriller Β· mystery

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.

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

Gritty and twisty in the same breath

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic

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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Infernal Affairs
2002 Β· dir. Alan Mak Siu-Fai
πŸ… 94%β˜… 8drama Β· action Β· thriller

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: Played as drama first

Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.

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Unknown
2011 Β· dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
πŸ… 56%β˜… 6.8action Β· mystery Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: hospital

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

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

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: hacker

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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Bacurau
2019 Β· dir. Kleber MendonΓ§a Filho
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.3mystery Β· western Β· thriller

Both lean on grit more than on mystery

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertΓ£o, 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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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 Β· dir. Adrian Panek
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.4crime Β· thriller Β· mystery

Twisty crime in both cases

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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Eastern Promises
2007 Β· dir. David Cronenberg
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.6thriller Β· crime Β· mystery

Thriller built on tension, twice over

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

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Drishyam
2015 Β· dir. Nishikant Kamat
πŸ… 75%β˜… 8.2mystery Β· thriller Β· drama

Crime built on grit, twice over

When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.

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Cold Eyes
2013 Β· dir. Kim Byung-seo
β˜… 7.1crime Β· action Β· thriller

A 2010s answer to the same itch

Ha Yoon-ju becomes the newest member of a unit within the Korean Police Forces Special Crime Department that specializes in surveillance activities on high-profile criminals. She teams up with Hwang Sang-jun, the veteran leader of the unit, and tries to track down James who is the cold-hearted leader of an armed criminal organization.

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Infernal Affairs II
2003 Β· dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
πŸ… 75%β˜… 7.2action Β· thriller Β· crime

The action is handled with the same confidence

In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.

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