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Movies that feel like The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

If you loved The Secret in Their Eyes, the closest films we have are Rojo (2018), Kahaani (2012) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011). All three share The Secret in Their Eyes' twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín 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.

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes8.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Juan José Campanellatwistytensecontemplative
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Rojo
2018 · dir. Benjamín Naishtat
🍅 96%6.3drama · mystery · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: argentina

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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Kahaani
2012 · dir. Sujoy Ghosh
🍅 100%8.1mystery · thriller

One thread runs through both: the investigation

The difference: Missing the stillness of The Secret in Their Eyes

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · dir. Tomas Alfredson
🍅 84%7drama · thriller · mystery

Twisty and tense in the same breath

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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Drishyam
2015 · dir. Nishikant Kamat
🍅 75%8.2mystery · thriller · drama

Common ground in both: police and murder

The difference: Leans harder into crime than The Secret in Their Eyes does

When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.

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Joint Security Area
2000 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 88%7.7drama · thriller · mystery

Contemplative mystery, and it commits to that

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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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 · dir. Niels Arden Oplev
🍅 85%7.8drama · thriller · crime

The same preoccupation in both: rape

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

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Searching
2018 · dir. Aneesh Chaganty
🍅 92%7.6drama · mystery · thriller

Twisty thriller in both cases

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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Unbreakable
2000 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 71%7.3thriller · drama · mystery

Common ground: shocking

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — 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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The Village
2004 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 43%6.6drama · mystery · thriller

Drama built on tension, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

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

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Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · dir. Sidney Lumet
🍅 89%7.2drama · thriller · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: the investigation

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

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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Identity
2003 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 63%7.3mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: murder

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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