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Movies that feel like The Place (2017)

If you loved The Place, the closest films we have are Tunnel (2016), The Hater (2020) and A Hijacking (2012). All three share The Place's contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and ARROW and others, checked against today's data.

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paolo Genovesecontemplativetense

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

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Tunnel
2016 · dir. Kim Seong-hun
🍅 100%6.8thriller · drama

Contemplative and tense in the same breath

A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help.

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The Hater
2020 · dir. Jan Komasa
🍅 87%7.1drama · thriller

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences.

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A Hijacking
2012 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 96%7.1thriller · drama

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.

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The Coldest Game
2019 · dir. Łukasz Kośmicki
🍅 17%6.2drama · thriller

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

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To Kill a Man
2014 · dir. Alejandro Fernández Almendras
6.3thriller · drama

Tense thriller in both cases

Jorge is a peaceful hard-working man who seeks a simple, quiet life for himself and his family. One day, he is mugged and humiliated by a gang of thugs led by Kalule, a delinquent from his neighborhood. This event infuriates his son as much for Jorge’s meek acceptance as for the act itself. The son, looking for retribution, ends up getting himself shot. Kalule is sent to jail and when he gets out 18 months later, begins a campaign of terror against Jorge and his family. The authorities do nothing, so Jorge decides to take matters into his own hands.

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Breaking Surface
2020 · dir. Joachim Hedén
🍅 100%6.1drama · thriller

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.

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Red Dot
2021 · dir. Alain Darborg
🍅 75%5.5thriller · drama

Both know what they want from thriller

On a hiking trip to rekindle their marriage, a couple find themselves fleeing for their lives in the unforgiving wilderness from an unknown shooter.

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Nowhere
2023 · dir. Albert Pintó
6.3thriller · drama

Drama of the same temperament

A young pregnant woman named Mia escapes from a country at war by hiding in a maritime container aboard a cargo ship. After a violent storm, Mia gives birth to the child while lost at sea, where she must fight to survive.

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A Wednesday!
2008 · dir. Neeraj Pandey
8.1drama · thriller

Both play thriller straight

Prakash Rathod, a retired police commissioner recounts the most memorable case of his career wherein he was informed about a bomb scare in Mumbai by an ordinary commoner.

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Locke
2014 · dir. Steven Knight
🍅 91%7.1drama · thriller

The same drama instincts

Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.

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The Experiment
2001 · dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel
🍅 72%7.7drama · thriller

Cut from the same thriller cloth

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.

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Fractured
2019 · dir. Brad Anderson
🍅 56%6.5thriller · drama

Both are drama through and through

Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray's family ever being checked in.

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