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Movies that feel like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

If you loved Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the closest films we have are Rojo (2018), The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) and Red Sparrow (2018). All three share Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 84% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Tomas Alfredsoncontemplativetensetwisty

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

The same preoccupation in both: 1970s

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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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 Β· dir. Juan JosΓ© Campanella
πŸ… 89%β˜… 8.2mystery Β· thriller Β· drama

Contemplative and tense in the same breath

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

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Red Sparrow
2018 Β· dir. Francis Lawrence
πŸ… 45%β˜… 6.6thriller Β· mystery

The same two preoccupations: budapest, hungary, and spy

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Prima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.

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Joint Security Area
2000 Β· dir. Park Chan-wook
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Twisty drama in both cases

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

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

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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The Village
2004 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 43%β˜… 6.6drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both lean on tension more than on mystery

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 Β· dir. AndrΓ©s Baiz
β˜… 7.3thriller Β· mystery

Thriller built on twists, twice over

The difference: Lighter on stillness

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

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Kahaani
2012 Β· dir. Sujoy Ghosh
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1mystery Β· thriller

Mystery with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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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The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.4thriller Β· mystery Β· drama

The same city underneath both: London

The difference: 55 years apart, and the 1950s show

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

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The Name of the Rose
1986 Β· dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Drama built on stillness, twice over

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

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Winter's Bone
2010 Β· dir. Debra Granik
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.1drama Β· mystery

Both lean on twists more than on drama

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.

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A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 Β· dir. Scott Frank
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.5crime Β· drama Β· mystery

The same thriller instincts

The difference: Leans further into crime

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

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