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Movies that feel likeThe Invisible Guest (2017)

Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.

If you loved The Invisible Guest, the closest films we have are Mirage (2018), Mystic River (2003) and The Gift (2015). All three share The Invisible Guest's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Vanishing (1988).

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Mirage
2018 · dir. Oriol Paulo
★ 7.4thriller · drama · mysteryNetflix

Both are Oriol Paulo's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Easier on the melancholy than The Invisible Guest

During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.

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Mystic River
2003 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 89%★ 7.9thriller · drama · mystery

Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: Sits closer to crime than The Invisible Guest does

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

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The Gift
2015 · dir. Joel Edgerton
🍅 92%★ 7thriller · mystery · drama

Tense and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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The Sixth Sense
1999 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 86%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · dramaNetflixHulu

Both lean on melancholy more than on drama

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

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Gone Girl
2014 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 88%★ 8.1mystery · thriller · drama

Mystery built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Takes it somewhere less melancholy than The Invisible Guest does

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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The Housemaid
2025 · dir. Paul Feig
🍅 74%★ 6.7mystery · thrillerStarz

Twisty thriller in both cases

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.

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Flightplan
2005 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 36%★ 6.3thriller · drama · mystery

Tense drama, and it commits to that

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.

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Tell No One
2006 · dir. Guillaume Canet
🍅 93%★ 7.5drama · thriller · crime

Common ground: falsely accused

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

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The Guest
2014 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 92%★ 6.7mystery · thriller · action

Mystery with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

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The Vanishing
1988 · dir. George Sluizer
🍅 96%★ 7.6thriller · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 1980s show

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor.

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, 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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Anatomy of a Fall
2023 · dir. Justine Triet
🍅 96%★ 7.6thriller · mystery · crimeMax

Tense mystery in both cases

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

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