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Movies that feel likeThe Third Murder (2017)

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

If you loved The Third Murder, the closest films we have are 12 (2007), After Dark, My Sweet (1990) and The Imposter (2012). All three share The Third Murder's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2014).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Hirokazu Kore-edacontemplativetwistygritty
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12
2007 · dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
🍅 76%★ 7.5crime · drama · mystery

One thread runs through both: courtroom drama

A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

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After Dark, My Sweet
1990 · dir. James Foley
🍅 80%★ 6.5crime · drama · mysteryStarz

Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1990s show

Three desperados try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

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The Imposter
2012 · dir. Bart Layton
🍅 95%★ 7.4documentary · mystery · crimePrime Video

Mystery with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than The Third Murder does

In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

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Brick
2006 · dir. Rian Johnson
🍅 79%★ 7.1drama · mystery · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
2014 · dir. Dayna Goldfine
🍅 83%★ 6.7documentary · mystery · history

Crime built on stillness, twice over

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.

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Mother
2009 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 96%★ 7.7crime · drama · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: murder

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

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The White Ribbon
2009 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 85%★ 7.8drama · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on drama

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

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Drishyam
2015 · dir. Nishikant Kamat
🍅 64%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · drama

Gritty drama, and it commits to that

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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And Then There Were None
1945 · dir. René Clair
🍅 100%★ 7.3crime · drama · mysteryPrime Video

Contemplative mystery in both cases

Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 · dir. Adrian Panek
🍅 80%★ 6.4crime · thriller · mysteryNetflix

Twisty crime in both cases

The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Third Murder

When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.

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Innocence
2005 · dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović
🍅 71%★ 6.8drama · mystery

Drama approached the same way

At a peculiar all-girls academy, new arrivals, including Iris, are delivered in coffins. Guided by enigmatic teachers, the students dance through enchanted woods by day, while the night unveils sinister lessons that blur innocence and awakening.

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Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 100%★ 8.4drama · mystery · crimePrime Video

Common ground in both: lawyer and courtroom

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.

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