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Movies that feel likeWind River (2017)

An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

If you loved Wind River, the closest films we have are You Were Never Really Here (2017), The Devil All the Time (2020) and Side Effects (2013). All three share Wind River's gritty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Frailty (2002).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Taylor Sheridangrittytensemelancholydread
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If Wind River hit the spot, these will too

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You Were Never Really Here
2017 · dir. Lynne Ramsay
🍅 89%★ 6.7crime · drama · thrillerPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: murder

The difference: Easier on the dread than Wind River

A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered—leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

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The Devil All the Time
2020 · dir. Antonio Campos
🍅 65%★ 7.1crime · drama · thrillerNetflix

Common ground: murder

The difference: Trades the dread of Wind River for an angle of its own

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

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Side Effects
2013 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 82%★ 7thriller · crime · dramaPrime VideoParamount+

Both land grit and tension at once

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Wind River does

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

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Hell or High Water
2016 · dir. David Mackenzie
🍅 97%★ 7.6western · crime · dramaMax

Melancholy crime in both cases

A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.

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21 Grams
2003 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 80%★ 7.6drama · crime · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

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Anatomy of a Fall
2023 · dir. Justine Triet
🍅 96%★ 7.6thriller · mystery · crimeMax

Mystery built on tension, twice over

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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Solace
2015 · dir. Afonso Poyart
🍅 24%★ 6.4thriller · crime · mysteryPrime Video

The same two preoccupations: fbi, and the investigation

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

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Hard Candy
2006 · dir. David Slade
🍅 67%★ 7drama · thriller

Melancholy thriller, and it commits to that

Hayley’s a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff’s a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff’s place. Jeff thinks it’s his lucky night. He’s in for a surprise.

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A Haunting in Venice
2023 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 75%★ 6.5mystery · thriller · crimeHulu

Both lean on grit more than on crime

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance 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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Death Wish
2018 · dir. Eli Roth
🍅 18%★ 6.3action · crime · thriller

Tense mystery, and it commits to that

A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

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

Another one that scratches it

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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Frailty
2002 · dir. Bill Paxton
🍅 76%★ 7.2drama · thriller · crime

The same preoccupation in both: fbi

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

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