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Movies that feel like The Guilty (2021)

If you loved The Guilty, the closest films we have are The Guilty (2018), Compliance (2012) and Fractured (2019). All three share The Guilty's contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 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.

A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.

πŸ… 73% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Antoine Fuquacontemplativetenseunsettling
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The Guilty
2018 Β· dir. Gustav MΓΆller
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.5thriller Β· drama Β· crime

Common ground in both: police officer and police station

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.

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Compliance
2012 Β· dir. Craig Zobel
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.4drama Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: psychological thriller

On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.

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Fractured
2019 Β· dir. Brad Anderson
πŸ… 56%β˜… 6.5thriller Β· drama

Common ground: police officer

The difference: None of the unease The Guilty is built on

Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray's family ever being checked in.

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Antichrist
2009 Β· dir. Lars von Trier
πŸ… 53%β˜… 6.5drama Β· horror Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: psychological thriller

The difference: Sits closer to horror than The Guilty does

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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Titane
2021 Β· dir. Julia Ducournau
πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.5drama Β· thriller Β· horror

Contemplative where it counts, tense underneath

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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Speak No Evil
2022 Β· dir. Christian Tafdrup
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.6horror Β· thriller Β· 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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Run
2020 Β· dir. Aneesh Chaganty
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6.7thriller Β· horror Β· drama

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.

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La Llorona
2019 Β· dir. Jayro Bustamante
πŸ… 96%β˜… 6.6thriller Β· horror Β· drama

Drama built on tension, twice over

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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The Gift
2015 Β· dir. Joel Edgerton
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7thriller Β· mystery Β· drama

Unsettling thriller in both cases

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

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Leave the World Behind
2023 Β· dir. Sam Esmail
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.4drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devicesβ€”and two strangers appear at their door.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 Β· dir. Peter Strickland
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.2horror Β· drama Β· thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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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Beautiful Boy
2018 Β· dir. Felix van Groeningen
πŸ… 67%β˜… 7.4drama

The shared currency is unease

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

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