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Movies that feel like The Hater (2020)

If you loved The Hater, the closest films we have are The Coldest Game (2019), Breaking Surface (2020) and Tunnel (2016). All three share The Hater's contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and ARROW and others, checked against today's data.

A duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences.

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jan Komasacontemplativetense

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The Coldest Game
2019 · dir. Łukasz Kośmicki
🍅 17%6.2drama · thriller

Common ground: warsaw, poland

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

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Breaking Surface
2020 · dir. Joachim Hedén
🍅 100%6.1drama · thriller

Contemplative where it counts, tense underneath

Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.

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Tunnel
2016 · dir. Kim Seong-hun
🍅 100%6.8thriller · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help.

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A Hijacking
2012 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 96%7.1thriller · drama

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.

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To Kill a Man
2014 · dir. Alejandro Fernández Almendras
6.3thriller · drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Jorge is a peaceful hard-working man who seeks a simple, quiet life for himself and his family. One day, he is mugged and humiliated by a gang of thugs led by Kalule, a delinquent from his neighborhood. This event infuriates his son as much for Jorge’s meek acceptance as for the act itself. The son, looking for retribution, ends up getting himself shot. Kalule is sent to jail and when he gets out 18 months later, begins a campaign of terror against Jorge and his family. The authorities do nothing, so Jorge decides to take matters into his own hands.

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Red Dot
2021 · dir. Alain Darborg
🍅 75%5.5thriller · drama

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

On a hiking trip to rekindle their marriage, a couple find themselves fleeing for their lives in the unforgiving wilderness from an unknown shooter.

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The Place
2017 · dir. Paolo Genovese
7drama · thriller

Both know what they want from drama

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

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A Wednesday!
2008 · dir. Neeraj Pandey
8.1drama · thriller

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

Prakash Rathod, a retired police commissioner recounts the most memorable case of his career wherein he was informed about a bomb scare in Mumbai by an ordinary commoner.

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Nowhere
2023 · dir. Albert Pintó
6.3thriller · drama

Both working the same drama territory

A young pregnant woman named Mia escapes from a country at war by hiding in a maritime container aboard a cargo ship. After a violent storm, Mia gives birth to the child while lost at sea, where she must fight to survive.

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Fractured
2019 · dir. Brad Anderson
🍅 56%6.5thriller · drama

Thriller approached the same way

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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Locke
2014 · dir. Steven Knight
🍅 91%7.1drama · thriller

Both are drama through and through

Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.

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The Experiment
2001 · dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel
🍅 72%7.7drama · thriller

Thriller in the same key

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.

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