
Movies that feel like The Number 23 (2007)
If you loved The Number 23, the closest films we have are The Ninth Gate (1999), Thelma (2017) and The Girl in the Fog (2017). All three share The Number 23's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 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.
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If The Number 23 hit the spot, these will too

Both are working the same pair: suicide, obsession
The difference: Reviewed even better

The same preoccupation in both: obsession
The difference: None of the grit The Number 23 is built on

Tense where it counts, twisty underneath

Joel Schumacher working the same nerve twice

Common ground: family

The same mix in both: grit, then obsession

Both keep coming back to the same thing: psychological thriller

One thread runs through both: psychological thriller

Both are Joel Schumacher's work, and they rhyme

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

Unsettling mystery in both cases
The difference: Sits closer to horror than The Number 23 does

Crime built on tension, twice over
The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft
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