20 best movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)


List of the best movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011): Gone Girl, Lost Girls, Memories of Murder, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Dark Places, True Crime, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Murder, My Sweet, Border Run, Gone Baby Gone.

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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: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:11

    1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about a serial murderer grow louder. A special task force is set up in the area, with two local detectives Park Doo-Man and Jo Young-Goo joined by a detective from Seoul who requested to be assigned to the case.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
    Duration02:27

    After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration02:31

    A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Gumshoe Philip Marlowe is hired by the oafish Moose Malloy to track down his former girlfriend. He's also hired to accompany an effeminate playboy buy back some jewels. When the exchange results in the playboy's murder, Marlowe can't leave the case alone, and soon discovers it's related to Malloy's. As he gets drawn deeper into a complex web of intrigue by a mysterious blonde, the detective finds his own life in increasing jeopardy.

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:41

      After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
      Duration02:32

      A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:58

      Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, West Germany

      A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S/M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society.

      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: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:38

      The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:48

      A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:33

        When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
        CountryFrance, United Kingdom
        Duration02:11

        A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

        An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:46

        The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:21

        Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        6 strangers are kidnapped and through governmental technology have proof they have all killed before and are told 5 will die this night, one may walk, and the six have 2 hours to decide who gets to live.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, military
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:56

        When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:03

        Uncle John revolves around the struggle to keep a mysterious disappearance unsolved

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryCanada
        Duration00:30

        Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying murders centered around the seven deadly sins.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Russia
        Duration02:21

        Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
        Duration02:07

        Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        As Aunt Alice, Ruth Gordon applies for the job of housekeeper in the Tucson, Arizona home of widow Claire Marrable in order to find out what happened to a missing widowed friend, Edna Tilsney. The crazed Page, left only a stamp album by her husband, takes money from her housekeepers, kills them, and buries the bodies in her garden. Alice is a widow too. So is neighbor Harriet Vaughn. Lots of widows here.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:28

        Detective Andrea Cornell is a tough, thorough Homicide Detective who leaves no stone unturned. Her unwavering dedication to her job makes her the most formidable opponent - or a highly valuable ally.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:22

        A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:38

        A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:16

        Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

        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: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Conner and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Conner has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences make their progress difficult until a security disc showing the murder turns up. Close scrutiny proves the disc has been doctored, and the detectives realize they're dealing with a cover-up as well.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany, France
        Duration02:01

        Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.

        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: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:44

        On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes. You're about to experience both versions.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:46

        U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.

        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: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:53

        When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        A stranger in the increasingly strange city of San Francisco, Japanese crime novelist Aki is unsure of precisely what role she has to play in a real-life murder mystery involving ambiguous MacGuffins and amorphous identities. Unfolding in lonely places such as bookshops and hotel bars, Dave Boyle's moody thriller uncovers exhilarating new takes on genre conventions. Consequently, it's an alluring l'homme fatal who supplies Aki with the breadcrumb trail of clues that entices her into a labyrinthine plot of sinister dealings. In turn, the aging sheriff (veteran character actor Pepe Serna, fantastic in a rare leading role), who should rightfully be riding to her rescue, proves to be equally out of his depth. The game is afoot, the chase is exhilarating and the stakes are perilously high in this inspired neo-noir.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.




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