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Movies that feel like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

If you loved The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the closest films we have are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), The Girl in the Fog (2017) and Eastern Promises (2007). All three share The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's tense and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.

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

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Niels Arden Oplevcontemplativetensegrittytwisty
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If The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo hit the spot, these will too

Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) · The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 86%7.8thriller · crime · mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: journalist and island

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative

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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The Girl in the Fog
2017 · dir. Donato Carrisi
🍅 75%6.8mystery · thriller · crime

Tense where it counts, gritty underneath

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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Eastern Promises
2007 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 89%7.6thriller · crime · mystery

Common ground: rape

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

Contemplative and twisty in the same breath

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

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Drishyam
2015 · dir. Nishikant Kamat
🍅 75%8.2mystery · thriller · drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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Lucky Number Slevin
2006 · dir. Paul McGuigan
7.7drama · thriller · crime

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

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Brick
2006 · dir. Rian Johnson
🍅 79%7.1drama · mystery · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: whodunit

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

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The Bone Collector
1999 · dir. Phillip Noyce
🍅 30%6.7crime · thriller · drama

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.

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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 · dir. Juan José Campanella
🍅 89%8.2mystery · thriller · drama

One thread runs through both: rape

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

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Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 · dir. Drew Goddard
🍅 75%7.1thriller · mystery · crime

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

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L.A. Confidential
1997 · dir. Curtis Hanson
🍅 99%8.2crime · mystery · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: whodunit

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

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Zodiac
2007 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 90%7.7crime · mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: journalist

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

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