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Movies that feel likeWith a Friend Like Harry... (2000)

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

If you loved With a Friend Like Harry..., the closest films we have are Innocence (2005), The Return (2003) and Winter's Bone (2010). All three share With a Friend Like Harry...'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).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Dominik Mollcontemplativetwistywarm
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Innocence
2005 · dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović
🍅 71%★ 6.8drama · mystery

Both land stillness and twists at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

The difference: Goes its own way on the warmth

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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Winter's Bone
2010 · dir. Debra Granik
🍅 94%★ 7.1drama · mysteryPrime Video

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

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.

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Wendy and Lucy
2008 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 85%★ 7.1drama

Both are working the same pair: friendship, family

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

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After Dark, My Sweet
1990 · dir. James Foley
🍅 80%★ 6.5crime · drama · mysteryStarz

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Played as crime first

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

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

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

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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The Girl Who Played with Fire
2009 · dir. Daniel Alfredson
🍅 69%★ 7.1drama · action · thrillerPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

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

Both are drama through and through

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

Mystery of the same temperament

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

Both play drama straight

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

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Marjorie Prime
2017 · dir. Michael Almereyda
🍅 89%★ 6.3drama · mystery · science fiction

Both know what they want from mystery

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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In a Better World
2010 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 77%★ 7.6drama

Both sit in the same warm register

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

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