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Movies that feel likeWinter's Bone (2010)

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.

If you loved Winter's Bone, the closest films we have are Innocence (2005), The Return (2003) and Mother (2009). All three share Winter's Bone's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Rojo (2018).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Debra Granikcontemplativetwisty
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Innocence
2005 · dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović
🍅 71%★ 6.8drama · mystery

The same mix in both: stillness, then twists

At a peculiar all-girls academy, new arrivals, including Iris, are delivered in coffins. Guided by enigmatic teachers, the students dance through enchanted woods by day, while the night unveils sinister lessons that blur innocence and awakening.

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The Return
2003 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
★ 7.9drama · mystery

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Two young brothers in contemporary Russia are reunited with a father they know only from an old photograph after his sudden return from a long absence. With their mother’s reluctant consent, they set out on a remote trip that quickly becomes an uneasy test of authority, trust, and masculinity. As the journey moves deeper into the wilderness, the fragile bonds between father and sons are pushed to their limits.

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Mother
2009 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 96%★ 7.7crime · drama · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: teenage girl

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Winter's Bone does

A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

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The Third Murder
2017 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 87%★ 6.7drama · mystery · crime

The same preoccupation in both: suspicion

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

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The White Ribbon
2009 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 85%★ 7.8drama · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011 · dir. Tomas Alfredson
🍅 84%★ 7drama · thriller · mystery

Contemplative drama in both cases

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.

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Brick
2006 · dir. Rian Johnson
🍅 79%★ 7.1drama · mystery · crime

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

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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12
2007 · dir. Nikita Mikhalkov
🍅 76%★ 7.5crime · drama · mystery

Both are drama through and through

A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

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Rojo
2018 · dir. Benjamín Naishtat
🍅 96%★ 6.3drama · mystery · thriller

Both play mystery straight

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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Joint Security Area
2000 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 88%★ 7.7drama · thriller · mystery

Drama approached the same way

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The lead investigator (Lee Young-ae) receives differing accounts from the two sides.

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With a Friend Like Harry...
2000 · dir. Dominik Moll
🍅 96%★ 7.1drama · mystery

Both working the same mystery territory

While fixing up their summer cottage, Michel and his family run into a man who claims to have gone to high school with Michel.

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The Imposter
2012 · dir. Bart Layton
🍅 95%★ 7.4documentary · mystery · crimePrime Video

Mystery in the same key

In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

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