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Movies that feel like The Hidden Face (2011)

If you loved The Hidden Face, the closest films we have are Kahaani (2012), Rojo (2018) and Marshland (2014). All three share The Hidden Face's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 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.

A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Andrés Baiztensetwisty

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If The Hidden Face hit the spot, these will too

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Kahaani
2012 · dir. Sujoy Ghosh
🍅 100%8.1mystery · thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then twists

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

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Rojo
2018 · dir. Benjamín Naishtat
🍅 96%6.3drama · mystery · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: disappearance

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Hidden Face does

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

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Marshland
2014 · dir. Alberto Rodríguez
🍅 91%7.2crime · mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: disappearance

The difference: Leans harder into crime than The Hidden Face does

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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Joint Security Area
2000 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 88%7.7drama · thriller · mystery

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.

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Searching
2018 · dir. Aneesh Chaganty
🍅 92%7.6drama · mystery · thriller

Twisty mystery in both cases

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

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Identity
2003 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 63%7.3mystery · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · dir. Tomas Alfredson
🍅 84%7drama · thriller · mystery

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

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Saboteur
1942 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 81%7.1thriller · mystery

The same thriller instincts

The difference: 69 years apart, and the 1940s show

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

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

Mystery of the same temperament

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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Bacurau
2019 · dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
🍅 93%7.3mystery · western · thriller

Both are thriller through and through

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, 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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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 · dir. Juan José Campanella
🍅 89%8.2mystery · thriller · drama

Cut from the same mystery cloth

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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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 88%6.7thriller · mystery

Thriller approached the same way

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.

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