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Movies that feel like The Girl Who Killed Her Parents (2021)

If you loved The Girl Who Killed Her Parents, the closest films we have are La Llorona (2019), Death Whisperer (2023) and Berberian Sound Studio (2012). All three share The Girl Who Killed Her Parents' tense and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents Daniel Cravinhos's point of view of the events that led to the death of Marísia and Manfred von Richthofen, his girlfriend’s parents.

5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Maurício Eçagrittycontemplativetensedreadunsettling
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If The Girl Who Killed Her Parents hit the spot, these will too

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La Llorona
2019 · dir. Jayro Bustamante
🍅 96%6.6thriller · horror · drama

Contemplative where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Without the same grit

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
5.8horror · thriller

Both land dread and unease at once

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · dir. Peter Strickland
🍅 85%6.2horror · drama · thriller

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

Tense thriller in both cases

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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The Secret Agent
2025 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
7.2thriller · drama · crime

The same preoccupation in both: brazil

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.

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Kill List
2011 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 79%6.4horror · thriller · crime

Crime built on grit, twice over

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%5.3thriller · horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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The House That Jack Built
2018 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 59%6.8drama · horror · crime

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

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Speak No Evil
2022 · dir. Christian Tafdrup
🍅 83%6.6horror · thriller · drama

Both lean on unease more than on drama

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

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Thriller: A Cruel Picture
1973 · dir. Bo Arne Vibenius
🍅 56%6.4action · thriller · crime

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Leans further into action

Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.

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The Golden Glove
2019 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 54%6.7crime · thriller · horror

Horror built on tension, twice over

The difference: Played as comedy first

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

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Titane
2021 · dir. Julia Ducournau
🍅 90%6.5drama · thriller · horror

A 2020s answer to the same itch

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.

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