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Movies that feel like The Nameless (1999)

If you loved The Nameless, the closest films we have are Crimson Peak (2015), The Skin I Live In (2011) and Last Night in Soho (2021). All three share The Nameless's 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 YouTube TV, Philo and Fandor Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

🍅 20% Rotten Tomatoes5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jaume Balaguerótensetwistydreadunsettlingcontemplative

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Crimson Peak
2015 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 72%6.5horror · mystery · romance

Both keep circling back to murder

The difference: Reviewed even better

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

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The Skin I Live In
2011 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 81%7.6drama · horror · mystery

The same mix in both: tension, then twists

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

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Last Night in Soho
2021 · dir. Edgar Wright
🍅 75%7horror · mystery · drama

Murder is the engine of both

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 2020s show

A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.

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Footprints on the Moon
1975 · dir. Luigi Bazzoni
6.6thriller · mystery · drama

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: A 1970s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

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In the Mouth of Madness
1995 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 61%7.1horror · mystery · drama

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans fantasy where The Nameless does not

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.

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Session 9
2001 · dir. Brad Anderson
🍅 68%6.4horror · mystery · drama

Twisty mystery in both cases

The difference: None of the tension that defines The Nameless

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

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Sinister
2012 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 64%6.8horror · thriller · mystery

Both built around snuff

True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

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Candyman
1992 · dir. Bernard Rose
🍅 79%6.7drama · horror · thriller

Horror built on tension, twice over

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

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The Witch
2016 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 91%7horror · drama · mystery

Drama with a pulse of dread, in both cases

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

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The Others
2001 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%7.6horror · mystery · thriller

Both trade on unease more than on being thriller

Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
6.8horror · mystery · thriller

Both trade on tension more than on being mystery

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · dir. Peter Strickland
🍅 85%6.2horror · drama · thriller

Horror built on stillness, twice over

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

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