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Movies that feel like Trance (2013)

If you loved Trance, the closest films we have are Mulholland Drive (2001), The Girl on the Train (2016) and Anatomy of a Fall (2023). All three share Trance's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 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.

A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

πŸ… 69% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Danny Boyletensegrittytwistymelancholycerebralplayful

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Mulholland Drive
2001 Β· dir. David Lynch
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.9thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: amnesia and loss of sense of reality

The difference: Not nearly as gritty as Trance

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

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The Girl on the Train
2016 Β· dir. Tate Taylor
πŸ… 44%β˜… 6.5crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: amnesia

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

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Anatomy of a Fall
2023 Β· dir. Justine Triet
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.6thriller Β· mystery Β· crime

Tense where it counts, gritty underneath

The difference: Missing the ideas of Trance

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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Headhunters
2011 Β· dir. Morten Tyldum
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.5thriller Β· crime Β· action

Common ground in both: heist and art thief

The difference: Leans harder into action than Trance does

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

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The Call
2020 Β· dir. Lee Chung-hyun
πŸ… 46%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mystery Β· science fiction

Common ground: tense

Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman’s past β€” and life β€” on the line to change her own fate.

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A Haunting in Venice
2023 Β· dir. Kenneth Branagh
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.5mystery Β· thriller Β· crime

Twisty and melancholy in the same breath

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween sΓ©ance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

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Tell No One
2006 Β· dir. Guillaume Canet
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.5drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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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Marshland
2014 Β· dir. Alberto RodrΓ­guez
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.2crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.

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The Guest
2014 Β· dir. Adam Wingard
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.7mystery Β· thriller Β· action

Mystery built on twists, twice over

A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

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The Girl in the Fog
2017 Β· dir. Donato Carrisi
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.8mystery Β· thriller Β· crime

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

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Solace
2015 Β· dir. Afonso Poyart
πŸ… 24%β˜… 6.4thriller Β· crime Β· mystery

Gritty crime in both cases

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

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The Legend of Al, John and Jack
2002 Β· dir. Massimo Venier
β˜… 6.5comedy Β· crime

The same mix in both: ideas, then play

Hapless Depression-era gangsters Al, John and Jack find out their boss wants to get rid of them and come up with a plan to sell him to the FBI, but Al's short-term memory loss could make it difficult.

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