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Movies that feel likeThe Sixth Sense (1999)

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

If you loved The Sixth Sense, the closest films we have are Mystic River (2003), Unbreakable (2000) and The Invisible Guest (2017). All three share The Sixth Sense's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Lantana (2001).

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Mystic River
2003 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 89%★ 7.9thriller · drama · mystery

Childhood damage surfacing decades later as working-class grief

The difference: No supernatural comfort — just men breaking under what was done

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.

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

Hushed Philadelphia melancholy as a quiet man learns what he really is

The difference: Comic-book mythology instead of ghosts, and far less tenderness

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 Invisible Guest
2017 · dir. Oriol Paulo
🍅 67%★ 8drama · mystery · thriller

Patient two-hander interrogation that keeps resetting what you believe

The difference: No supernatural ache — a cold puzzle box built to outwit you

Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.

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Lantana
2001 · dir. Ray Lawrence
🍅 90%★ 7.2crime · drama · mystery

Grief, marriages under strain and secrets knotted into a mystery

The difference: An ensemble character piece — the mystery is the quietest part

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

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Tell No One
2006 · dir. Guillaume Canet
🍅 93%★ 7.5drama · thriller · crime

Grief that curdles into a mystery you can't stop pulling at

The difference: A chase thriller at heart — momentum over mood

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

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Gone Girl
2014 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 88%★ 8.1mystery · thriller · drama

A marriage picked apart until you cannot trust what you were shown

The difference: Cold and mean where this is tender — satire, not sorrow

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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The Village
2004 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 43%★ 6.6drama · mystery · thrillerHulu

A whole community living around a fear it will not name out loud

The difference: Colder and more allegorical — no warm two-hander at its center

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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Flightplan
2005 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 36%★ 6.3thriller · drama · mystery

A protagonist no one believes, and a loss the film keeps circling

The difference: One-location gimmick thriller — the twist lands with less weight

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.

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The Vanishing
1988 · dir. George Sluizer
🍅 96%★ 7.6thriller · mystery

An ordinary loss that hides one of cinema's coldest answers

The difference: No comfort waiting at the end — it goes where Shyamalan wouldn't

Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor.

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Fanny and Alexander
1982 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%★ 8.1fantasy · drama · mysteryMax

A child who sees more than the adults around him, ghosts included

The difference: A long, slow Bergman family saga — patience required

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.

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Solace
2015 · dir. Afonso Poyart
🍅 24%★ 6.4thriller · crime · mysteryPrime Video

The same mix in both: twists, then tension

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.

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Anatomy of a Fall
2023 · dir. Justine Triet
🍅 96%★ 7.6thriller · mystery · crimeMax

Both land melancholy and grit at once

The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Sixth Sense

A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

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