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Movies that feel like Who Am I (2014)

If you loved Who Am I, the closest films we have are Loving Adults (2022), Buried (2010) and The Silence (2010). All three share Who Am I's tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hi-YAH and others, checked against today's data.

Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.

7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Baran bo Odartense

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Loving Adults
2022 · dir. Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg
6.5thriller

Tense thriller in both cases

The thin line between love and hate turns deadly when a wife discovers her husband’s affair — and they both take extreme measures to get what they want.

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Buried
2010 · dir. Rodrigo Cortés
🍅 87%7thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

As an American civilian truck driver working in Iraq, Paul Conroy's convoy is attacked by a group of Iraqi insurgents. Some time later, Paul awakes in a coffin with only a lighter, a cell phone, and his ever-growing anxiety. Faced with a dwindling oxygen supply and a dying battery, he must fight panic, despair, and delirium as he races against time to escape the claustrophobic death trap.

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The Silence
2010 · dir. Baran bo Odar
🍅 87%7crime · thriller · drama

Both are Baran bo Odar's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Who Am I does

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

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Fracture
2007 · dir. Gregory Hoblit
🍅 72%7.2thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.

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Fall
2022 · dir. Scott Mann
🍅 79%6.4thriller

Both know what they want from thriller

For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky and Hunter's expert climbing skills will be put to the ultimate test as they desperately fight to survive the elements, a lack of supplies, and vertigo-inducing heights.

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Illustrious Corpses
1976 · dir. Francesco Rosi
7.3thriller

Both play thriller straight

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

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A Hijacking
2012 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 96%7.1thriller · drama

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Who Am I does

Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.

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The Place
2017 · dir. Paolo Genovese
7drama · thriller

Both are thriller through and through

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

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Tunnel
2016 · dir. Kim Seong-hun
🍅 100%6.8thriller · drama

Both working the same thriller territory

A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help.

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To Kill a Man
2014 · dir. Alejandro Fernández Almendras
6.3thriller · drama

Thriller of the same temperament

Jorge is a peaceful hard-working man who seeks a simple, quiet life for himself and his family. One day, he is mugged and humiliated by a gang of thugs led by Kalule, a delinquent from his neighborhood. This event infuriates his son as much for Jorge’s meek acceptance as for the act itself. The son, looking for retribution, ends up getting himself shot. Kalule is sent to jail and when he gets out 18 months later, begins a campaign of terror against Jorge and his family. The authorities do nothing, so Jorge decides to take matters into his own hands.

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The Hater
2020 · dir. Jan Komasa
🍅 87%7.1drama · thriller

Thriller approached the same way

A duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences.

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The Lives of Others
2006 · dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
🍅 92%8.4drama · thriller

The same city underneath both: Berlin

In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.

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