20 best movies like Shutter Island (2010)

List of the best movies like Shutter Island (2010): Black Swan, Ghost in the Shell, Inception, Gone Girl, Primal Fear, In the Mouth of Madness, The Night Listener, The Jacket, Orphan, The International.

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Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

    A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada
    Duration02:13

    In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

    Markimdb: 8.8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:28

      Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

        With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:10

        An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a 3rd person in the room. The intensity builds when a surprise twist alters everyone's perception of the crime.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:31

        An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan—a young boy—via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:42

        A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada, Germany, France
        Duration02:03

        A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, France
        Duration01:58

        An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, family, detective
        CountryUSA

        When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation. As strange events begin to unfold, they start to question whether the town they know so well is really what it seems.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:44

        A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.

        Markimdb: 3.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        After losing his brother in combat, Jacob Singer returns home from Afghanistan -- only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia. Singer soon realizes that his sibling is alive but life is not what it seems.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:51

        Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:03

        Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his situation even worse.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration02:24

        A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities. His crusade is to protect the substance of science against those who would abuse and misuse scientific discoveries for their own gain.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        Samantha Holt had the perfect life with a handsome fiancée and a future that couldn’t look brighter. But an unexpected turn on a dark lonely road puts her on a collision course with Bruce Miller, a devoted family man who descends into madness when he loses everything he ever cared about. One year later, Bruce decides to give Samantha the punishment he believes she escaped. Samantha has struggled with her own demons since that fateful night, and Bruce will take her struggles to the edge when he implements a demented plan to teach her a twisted lesson that may cost her the ultimate price.

        Markimdb: 3
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:07

        Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game, Hangman.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrethriller, drama, detective, biography
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:43

        An investigation into one woman’s memory as she‘s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

        Markimdb: 3.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

          After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:21

          A darkly comic swamp noir story of two best friends set in the late 1980s. Based on the novels by Joe R. Lansdale, the series follows Hap Collins, an East Texas white boy with a weakness for Southern women, and Leonard Pine, a gay, black Vietnam vet with a hot temper.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

          After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
          Duration02:25

          Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Australia
          Duration02:18

          A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada, India
          Duration02:32

          Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Sweden
          Duration01:32

          A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, China
          Duration02:09

          In a series of escalating encounters, security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
          Duration02:27

          Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict Jericho Stewart. When he wakes up with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and eliminate him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrethriller, drama, detective, film noir
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:29

          Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:41

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

            Markimdb: 4.3
            Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, China
            Duration02:22

            When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA

            Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is reluctantly drawn into a puzzling murder case. The local police have been unable to solve the horrific crime, or even decipher the victim's true identity. A beautiful and enigmatic young blond, known only as "The White Orchid," has been brutally murdered. As Claire is drawn deeper and more intimately into the dead woman's life, she finds herself taking dangerous chances and pushing personal and professional boundaries. As she gets closer to the truth, Claire must effectively become the charismatic "White Orchid" in order to solve the mysterious crime.

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