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Top 10 atmospheric thriller/mystery movies like Prisoners.

“Prisoners“

10. Incendies

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Nawal (Lubna Azabal), a dying Middle Eastern woman living in Montreal, leaves separate letters to her twin children to be read once she passes away. Jeanne (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) is to deliver hers to the father the twins never knew, and Simon (Maxim Gaudette) is to give his to the brother they never knew they had. The siblings travel to the Middle East separately, where they each experience acts of brutality, uncover a startling family history, and have revelations about themselves.

9. Zodiac

Director: David Fincher

Robert Graysmith, a cartoonist by profession, finds himself obsessively thinking about the Zodiac killer. He uses his puzzle-solving abilities to get closer to revealing the identity of the killer.

8. The Game

Director: David Fincher

Nicholas Van Orton, a merchant banker, receives a strange birthday gift, a voucher for a game, from his brother Conrad. When he actually makes use of the present, he finds himself in trouble.

7.Gone Baby Gone

Director: Ben Affleck

When four-year-old Amanda goes missing, her aunt Beatrice hires detectives Angie and Patrick to trace her. However, the duo encounter paedophiles, gangs and drug deals during their search operations.

6. Gone Girl

Director: David Fincher

Nick Dunne discovers that the entire media focus has shifted on him when his wife, Amy Dunne, mysteriously disappears on the day of their fifth wedding anniversary.

5. Shutter island

Director: Martin Scorsese

Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.

4. The Secret in Their Eyes

Director: Juan José Campanella

Decades later, a former legal counsellor revisits a homicide case in order to write a novel on it. He simultaneously deals with his feelings for his former colleague while working on the case.

3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Director: David Fincher

Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist, hires Lisbeth Salander, a computer hacker, to solve the mystery of a woman who has been missing for forty years. The two discover more than they bargained for.

2. Mystic River

Director: Clint Eastwood

After the death of Jimmy’s daughter, Katie, Sean, a police officer, investigates her murder which leads him to a crime that took place twenty-five years ago.

1. Seven

Director: David Fincher

A serial killer begins murdering people according to the seven deadly sins. Two detectives, one new to the city and the other about to retire, are tasked with apprehending the criminal.

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