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Movies that feel like Thelma (2017)

If you loved Thelma, the closest films we have are Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Searching (2018) and Rojo (2018). All three share Thelma's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads and Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

πŸ… 92% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Joachim Triercontemplativetwistytenseobsessive

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If Thelma hit the spot, these will too

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Eyes Wide Shut
1999 Β· dir. Stanley Kubrick
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7.5drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Sexual obsession is the engine of both

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

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Searching
2018 Β· dir. Aneesh Chaganty
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

The same mix in both: stillness, then twists

The difference: Not nearly as obsessive as Thelma

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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Rojo
2018 Β· dir. BenjamΓ­n Naishtat
πŸ… 96%β˜… 6.3drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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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Unbreakable
2000 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7.3thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Both built around superpowers

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead β€” 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 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 43%β˜… 6.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both trade on stillness more than on being mystery

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 Killing of a Sacred Deer
2017 Β· dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.

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Gone Girl
2014 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 88%β˜… 8.1mystery Β· thriller Β· drama

Tense drama in both cases

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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Shutter Island
2010 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 69%β˜… 8.2drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Mystery built on stillness, twice over

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

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Disturbia
2007 Β· dir. D.J. Caruso
πŸ… 69%β˜… 6.8thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Thriller built on twists, twice over

Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problemβ€”he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.

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Basic Instinct
1992 Β· dir. Paul Verhoeven
πŸ… 56%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mystery

The same preoccupation in both: sexual obsession

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1990s show

Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.

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Pi
1998 Β· dir. Darren Aronofsky
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.3mystery Β· drama Β· thriller

Tense drama in both cases

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

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The Game
1997 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Both are drama through and through

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

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