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Movies that feel likeZodiac (2007)

Police conduct a manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers.

If you loved Zodiac, the closest films we have are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Se7en (1995) and The Girl in the Fog (2017). All three share Zodiac's gritty and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Colors of Evil: Red (2024).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Finchergrittytwistytense
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 86%★ 7.8thriller · crime · mysteryNetflixApple TV+

Fincher's cold-case rigor — archives, obsession, dread

The difference: Far more brutal — violence Zodiac keeps off screen

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

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Se7en
1995 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 84%★ 8.6crime · mystery · thrillerParamount+

Fincher's other serial-killer study — detectives losing ground

The difference: Pulp horror pace — catharsis where Zodiac denies it

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

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The Girl in the Fog
2017 · dir. Donato Carrisi
🍅 75%★ 6.8mystery · thriller · crime

A disappearance that warps everyone drawn into solving it

The difference: Twist-dependent — it plays games Zodiac refuses to

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

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Eastern Promises
2007 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 89%★ 7.6thriller · crime · mysteryPrime Video

Methodical descent into a violent, secretive world

The difference: A mob story, not a mystery — the tension is muscle-deep

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

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L.A. Confidential
1997 · dir. Curtis Hanson
🍅 99%★ 8.2crime · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Institutional rot uncovered by men who can't let go

The difference: Pulpier and more romantic — it entertains where Zodiac unnerves

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 · dir. Niels Arden Oplev
🍅 85%★ 7.8drama · thriller · crimePrime Video

A decades-cold case reopened one document at a time

The difference: Rougher edges — a blunt telling without Fincher's polish

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

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The Batman
2022 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 85%★ 7.8crime · mystery · thrillerMax

A ciphering killer taunting investigators through riddles

The difference: Comic-book scale — three hours and a cape between clues

In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

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Marshland
2014 · dir. Alberto Rodríguez
🍅 91%★ 7.2crime · mystery · thriller

Gritty and twisty in the same breath

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.

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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 · dir. Juan José Campanella
🍅 89%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · dramaHulu

The same two preoccupations: police, and the investigation

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Zodiac does

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

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Death on the Nile
2022 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 62%★ 6.3mystery · crime · thrillerHulu

A murder puzzle worked suspect by suspect, clue by clue

The difference: Cozy Christie theatrics — glamour instead of dread

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 · dir. Adrian Panek
🍅 80%★ 6.4crime · thriller · mysteryNetflix

A methodical hunt for the truth behind one dead girl

The difference: TV-movie scope — competent, anonymous, quickly gone

When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.

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Lucky Number Slevin
2006 · dir. Paul McGuigan
★ 7.7drama · thriller · crime

Crime built on tension, twice over

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

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