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Movies that feel like Winter's Bone (2010)

If you loved Winter's Bone, the closest films we have are Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Brick (2006) and The Hateful Eight (2015). All three share Winter's Bone's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Cinemax Amazon Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 94% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Debra Granikcontemplativetwisty
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Murder on the Orient Express
2017 Β· dir. Kenneth Branagh
πŸ… 60%β˜… 6.5mystery Β· drama Β· crime

Both land stillness and twists at once

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

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Brick
2006 Β· dir. Rian Johnson
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.1drama Β· mystery Β· crime

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Leans crime where Winter's Bone does not

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

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The Hateful Eight
2015 Β· dir. Quentin Tarantino
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.8drama Β· mystery Β· western

Mystery built on twists, twice over

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

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Changeling
2008 Β· dir. Clint Eastwood
πŸ… 61%β˜… 7.7crime Β· drama Β· mystery

Both trade on stillness more than on being drama

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

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

Twisty mystery in both cases

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 are drama through and through

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

Mystery approached the same way

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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Citizen Kane
1941 Β· dir. Orson Welles
πŸ… 99%β˜… 8.2mystery Β· drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

The difference: 69 years apart, and the 1940s show

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

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Marjorie Prime
2017 Β· dir. Michael Almereyda
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.3drama Β· mystery Β· science fiction

The same mystery instincts

A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.

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After Dark, My Sweet
1990 Β· dir. James Foley
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.5crime Β· drama Β· mystery

The same drama instincts

Three desperados try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.

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Leave No Trace
2018 Β· dir. Debra Granik
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.1drama

The same hand behind both of them: Debra Granik

The difference: Not nearly as twisty as Winter's Bone

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

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

The same mystery instincts

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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