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Movies that feel like The Name of the Rose (1986)

If you loved The Name of the Rose, the closest films we have are All the President's Men (1976), Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and Joint Security Area (2000). All three share The Name of the Rose's contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

πŸ… 74% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jean-Jacques Annaudcontemplativetensetwisty
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All the President's Men
1976 Β· dir. Alan J. Pakula
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.9drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Contemplative where it counts, tense underneath

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

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Murder on the Orient Express
1974 Β· dir. Sidney Lumet
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.2drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Both lean on twists more than on drama

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

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Joint Security Area
2000 Β· dir. Park Chan-wook
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Contemplative thriller in both cases

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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Le Corbeau
1943 Β· dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.8mystery Β· drama Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: poison

The difference: 43 years apart, and the 1940s show

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.

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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 Β· dir. Juan JosΓ© Campanella
πŸ… 89%β˜… 8.2mystery Β· thriller Β· drama

Mystery built on tension, twice over

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator BenjamΓ­n 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 Da Vinci Code
2006 Β· dir. Ron Howard
πŸ… 25%β˜… 6.6thriller Β· mystery

The same two preoccupations: christianity, and monk

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that β€” should it come to light β€” could rock the very foundations of Christianity.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 Β· dir. Tomas Alfredson
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Drama with a pulse of twists, in both cases

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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The Village
2004 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 43%β˜… 6.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

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Unbreakable
2000 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7.3thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Different title, same corner of the shelf

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead β€” and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

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Searching
2018 Β· dir. Aneesh Chaganty
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Twisty drama, and it commits to that

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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Rojo
2018 Β· dir. BenjamΓ­n Naishtat
πŸ… 96%β˜… 6.3drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both play thriller straight

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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Identity
2003 Β· dir. James Mangold
πŸ… 63%β˜… 7.3mystery Β· thriller

Mystery in the same key

The difference: Missing the stillness of The Name of the Rose

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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