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Movies that feel like The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)

If you loved The Keeper of Lost Causes, the closest films we have are Insomnia (1997), The Girl in the Fog (2017) and Marshland (2014). All three share The Keeper of Lost Causes' tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.

Denmark, 2013. Police officers Carl Mørck and Hafez el-Assad, sole members of Department Q, which is focused on closing cold cases, investigate the disappearance of politician Merete Lynggaard, vanished when she and her brother were traveling aboard a ferry five years ago.

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mikkel Nørgaardtensetwistygrittyatmospheric
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Insomnia
1997 · dir. Erik Skjoldbjærg
🍅 95%7.2thriller · crime · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: nordic noir

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.

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

Tense where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: Without the same atmosphere

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

One thread runs through both: disappearance

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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The Naked City
1948 · dir. Jules Dassin
🍅 85%7.5crime · mystery · thriller

Gritty and atmospheric in the same breath

The difference: 65 years apart, and the 1940s show

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

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The Big Sleep
1946 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 96%7.9mystery · crime · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 · dir. Adrian Panek
🍅 80%6.4crime · thriller · mystery

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.

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Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 100%7.8thriller · mystery · crime

Both lean on grit more than on crime

In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.

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The Lady from Shanghai
1947 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 86%7.5mystery · crime · thriller

Atmospheric thriller in both cases

The difference: Played as drama first

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

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The Imposter
2012 · dir. Bart Layton
🍅 95%7.4documentary · mystery · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: disappearance

In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

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Stray Dog
1949 · dir. Akira Kurosawa
🍅 100%7.8crime · drama · thriller

Mystery built on tension, twice over

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

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The Killers
1946 · dir. Robert Siodmak
🍅 97%7.7crime · mystery · thriller

Both lean on twists more than on crime

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

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The Hidden Face
2011 · dir. Andrés Baiz
7.3thriller · mystery

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

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

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