Movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) is a thriller movie directed by Niels Arden Oplev. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
★ 7.4 · 7,859 votes · Thriller, Crime, Mystery
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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2. Hanna (2011)
★ 6.6 · 3,798 votes · Action, Thriller, Adventure
Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.
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3. Miss Sloane (2016)
★ 7.4 · 2,045 votes · Thriller, Drama, Crime
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
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4. Zodiac (2007)
★ 7.5 · 12,005 votes · Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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.
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5. The Ring (2002)
★ 6.7 · 6,928 votes · Horror, Mystery
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.
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6. Chinatown (1974)
★ 7.9 · 4,446 votes · Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
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7. Gone Girl (2014)
★ 7.9 · 20,535 votes · Mystery, Thriller, Drama
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.
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8. Shutter Island (2010)
★ 8.2 · 26,598 votes · Drama, Thriller, Mystery
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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9. The Hunger Games (2012)
★ 7.2 · 23,847 votes · Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.
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10. The Number 23 (2007)
★ 6.4 · 3,658 votes · Thriller, Mystery, Crime
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
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11. Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
★ 6.5 · 969 votes · Drama, Thriller, Mystery
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
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12. Nocturnal Animals (2016)
★ 7.4 · 8,525 votes · Drama, Thriller
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
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13. Bordertown (2007)
★ 6.3 · 373 votes · Crime, Drama, Mystery
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
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14. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
★ 7.0 · 3,637 votes · Drama, Crime
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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15. The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7 · 584 votes · Thriller, Drama
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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