Movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
223K
Original name: Män som hatar kvinnor
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
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
Style:
tense, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological thriller, detective, sexy, psychological, captivating, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hacker, investigation, twists and turns, rape, journalist, sexual abuse, strong female lead, amateur detective, age difference, violence against women, missing person, lesbian, goth, femme fatale, strong female character, serial killer, hacking, revenge, murder mystery, journalism, uncover truth, misogyny, peril, murder, computer ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, year 2010, year 1966, year 1954, year 1964, year 1950 ...
Place:
scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, australia, eastern europe
Keyword:
sweden, partners, feminist film, reboot, dutch, jewish, attack, challenge
Most similar movies to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, suspense, suspenseful and twisted films with plots about investigation, murder, twists and turns, murder mystery, police officer, serial killer and police mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009), The Ghost Writer (2010), Millennium (2010), Prisoners (2013), Wind River (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, psychological, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, journalism, hacker, secret service, conspiracy, dishonesty, strong female lead, lesbian, journalist, murder mystery, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
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, ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, talky, serious ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder, journalist, conspiracy, corruption, hospital, policewoman, investigation, trial, lawyer, kickass women, rape ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, rough, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, hacker, investigation, rape, murder mystery, sexual abuse, missing person, journalist, strong female character, twists and turns, murder investigation, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 60s, year 1966, 21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman ...
Style:
serious, political thriller, captivating, atmospheric, political ...
Plot:
writers, twists and turns, politics, political conspiracy, investigation, betrayal, writer's life, spy, espionage, cia, conspiracy, suspicion ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new england, new york, massachusetts, britain, oxford university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 540 min.
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Story:
The paths of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander cross and they team up to reveal a dark and terrifying truth involving murder and sexual abuse, a story that has long been concealed in Swedish society.
Style:
tense, serious, intellectual, noir, atmospheric ...
Plot:
twists and turns, investigation, lesbian, journalist, hacker, life is a bitch, uncover truth, journalism, amateur detective, partner, danger, nordic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
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?
Style:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, serial killer, twists and turns, revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, brutality, torture, police, vigilante, cop ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
279K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, neo western, neo noir, surprise ending ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, snow, rape, winter, fbi, murder investigation, native american reservation, violence, fbi agent, native american, forest ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
71K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, revenge, family relations, determination, amateur detective, uncover truth, murder mystery, asian, mother, mentally challenged, character study ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
483K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style:
psychological, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
vengeance, police investigation, murder, sexual abuse, murder mystery, investigation, death in the family, child abuse, loss of child, revenge, tragic event, grief ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
"The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, psychological, twist ending, mind blowing ...
Plot:
uncover truth, lawyer, infidelity, lie, interrogation, murder suspect, evidence, death, blackmail, moral dilemma, strong female character, suspect ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
iberian peninsula, barcelona, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Films like Se7en
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
Style:
suspense, enigmatic, detective, captivating, surprise ending ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
whodunit, murder mystery, private detective, mansion, murder, family secret, twists and turns, investigation, servant, poison, secret, spy ...
Time:
50s, year 1957, 1950s
Place:
london, cairo egypt, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1994 two young twins are found brutally murdered in a summer cottage. A number of clues points in the direction of a group of young upper class students from a nearby boarding school, but the case is closed as a local outsider pleads guilty and ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, noir ...
Plot:
police investigation, partners against crime, cold case, murder, uncover truth, law enforcement, boarding school, father son relationship, conspiracy, bare breasts, nordic, twins ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail ...
Style:
detective, twist ending, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, north carolina, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, trial, courtroom drama, psychology, lawyer, murder, courtroom, psychopath, corruption, manipulation ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, intense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
stripper, serial killer, investigation, murder, murder of family, farm, private investigator, psychiatry, justice, brutality, police investigation, sibling relationship ...
Time:
year 2015, year 1985, year 1999, 80s, year 1968 ...
Place:
kansas, chicago, ireland, missouri, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, enigmatic, scary ...
Plot:
child abuse, investigation, stephen king, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, maid, abusive husband, sexual abuse, small town, women, strong female lead, abusive father ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, persia, nova scotia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
1.8M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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. ...
Style:
detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, mind game, murder, insanity, police investigation, macabre, maniac ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, america, iran, persia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Mommy vlogger Stephanie joins her best friend Emily's husband, Sean, to investigate her sudden disappearance from their small town.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
missing person, investigation, ruse, deception, murder, murder investigation, blackmail, female friendship, dark past, missing woman, small town, death ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york, london, michigan, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
265K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
psychological, heartbreaking, sentimental, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, fighting the system, missing child, missing person, police corruption, uncover truth, disorder, trial, kidnapped child, corruption ...
Time:
1920s, year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, year 1935 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, canada, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
1.1M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder mystery, missing person, psychology, infidelity, manipulation, investigation, femme fatale, adultery, marriage, missing wife, psychopath ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Films like Gone Girl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place:
pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, policewoman, mind game, murder, twists and turns, master criminal, crime scene, forensics, race against time ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, persia, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
Style:
surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending ...
Plot:
investigation, twists and turns, fatal attraction, female protagonist, mind game, uncover truth, writers, obsessive love, seduction, hacking, obsession, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on the first book in Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestselling thriller series about Department Q THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES tells the story of the two policemen Carl Mørck and Assad who become involved in a five-year-old case concerning a missing ...
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
police investigation, missing person, police detective, cold case, false identity, police partner, unsolved crime, under the surface, uncover truth, investigation, murder mystery, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
realistic, neo noir, psychological, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, police, rape, police investigation, murderer, murder, twists and turns, investigation, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, true crime ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, y2k, year 1986, 20th century ...
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, detective, thought provoking, surprise ending ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, private detective, twists and turns, moral dilemma, police investigation, missing child, moral ambiguity, tragic event, murder mystery, immorality, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
neo noir, tense, noir, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, police corruption, murder, murder mystery, police, police detective, organized crime, fighting the system, call girl, dangerous attraction, police brutality, twists and turns ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, persia, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An old note is found in a bottle in Jutland which has travelled across the ocean for a long time. The note is hard to decipher, but when the Danish investigators from Section Q receive it, the odd personalities within the section find a new angle on ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, enigmatic, exciting ...
Plot:
cold case, religion, police investigation, child abduction, police, missing child, serial killer, letter, secretary, depression, brother brother relationship, police protagonist ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, serial killer, frame up, twists and turns, torture, loss of wife, surveillance, brutality, grief, corpse, disappearance ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds ...
Style:
clever, intense, twisted, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, investigation, internet, fbi, kidnapping, hacker, website, sadism, suicide, torture ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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