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17 Movies Like Mystic River (2003)

21 Grams (2003) poster

1 21 Grams (2003) ★ 7.6

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It is said that each person loses 21 grams at the moment of death. That's the weight of a handful of nickels, a bar of chocolate, a hummingbird...

"21 Grams" is a story of hope and humanity, of vitality and survival. Whether you fear death or not, it comes, and in that moment your body becomes 21 grams lighter. Could that be the weight of the human soul?

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2 Sleepers (1996) ★ 7.5

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After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard gives them a chance for revenge.
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3 Edge of Darkness (2010) ★ 6.6

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After his daughter's death, Thomas Craven becomes a detective to seek justice for her. His own quest leads him on an adventure filled with corruption and conspiracy that spans the streets of Boston before he finally discovers who is behind it all.
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4 Zodiac (2007) ★ 7.5

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In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
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5 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) ★ 7.8

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Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.
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6 Se7en (1995) ★ 8.6

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Detective William Somerset is a veteran criminal detective who dreams of retiring and getting away from the city and its sinful inhabitants. Seven days before retirement, Somerset is plagued by two troubles: a young partner, Mills, and a particularly elaborate murder. The experienced detective's sharp mind immediately determines that this crime is likely to be followed by others. The news confirms his hunch. Realizing that the killer is punishing his victims for their deadly sins, the detective faces a choice: go back to work or leave and hand the case over to his less experienced partner?
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7 Traffic (2000) ★ 7.6

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A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife ...
Gone Baby Gone (2007) poster

8 Gone Baby Gone (2007) ★ 7.6

Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.
Million Dollar Baby (2004) poster

9 Million Dollar Baby (2004) ★ 8.1

A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.

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Fracture (2007) poster

10 Fracture (2007) ★ 7.2

An attorney intending on climbing the career ladder toward success finds an unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal he is trying to prosecute.
Prisoners (2013) poster

11 Prisoners (2013) ★ 8.1

Keller Dover faces every parent's biggest nightmare: his six-year-old daughter is missing along with her friend. Time flies, the girls don't return, and panic reaches its peak. The only clue is a dilapidated van that was parked on their street when the girls were playing in the yard. Detective Lockey, leading the investigation, arrests its driver, Alex Jones, but the police soon have to let him go for lack of evidence. The police delay, and the distraught father takes matters into his own hands. But how far is Keller willing to go to find the girls?
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12 Motherless Brooklyn (2019) ★ 6.8

Lionel Essrog, a lonely private detective with Tourette's syndrome, decides to begin investigating the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna. He has only a few leads and the power of a mind obsessed with the task at hand to unravel the tangle of carefully concealed secrets that keep the balance of power in New York itself. His investigation takes him to the jazz clubs of Harlem, where gin runs in rivers, the dangerous slums of Brooklyn, and even the gilded halls of the metropolis' political elite. He challenges gangsters, corruption, and the most dangerous man in town to clear his friend's name and save the woman who might save himself.

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13 The Game (1997) ★ 7.7

Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving in to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.
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14 The Life of David Gale (2003) ★ 7.6

David Gale is a man who has tried to live up to his principles, but, in a bizarre twist of fate, this devoted father, popular professor, and ardent opponent of the death penalty finds himself on death row for the murder of activist Constance Harraway. Three days before his execution, Gale agrees to be interviewed by reporter Bitsy Bloom.

But the journalist soon realizes that her involvement in this case will not be limited to one interview and that a man's life is in her hands. Putting her own safety on the line, she begins to investigate the horrific events surrounding Constance's death.

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15 Kiss the Girls (1997) ★ 6.6

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Alex Cross, a Washington D.C. cop and forensic psychologist learns that his niece who is going to college in North Carolina is missing. So he goes there and learns that the police think she's among the victims of someone who kidnaps young girls and holds them captive and kills them who dubs himself Cassanova after the great lover. Later Kate, one of his victims, escapes and tries to help Cross find his niece.

Kiss the Girls (1997) is on #15 spot of movies related to Mystic River (2003). Kiss the Girls (1997) was released in 1997, made by and has average rating 6.6 in 2022. Main stars of the Kiss the Girls (1997) film are: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes.

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16 Gone Girl (2014) ★ 8.1

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Everything was ready for the celebration of five years of married life, when all of a sudden the birthday girl inexplicably disappeared. What was left behind were traces of a struggle in the house, blood that had clearly been tried to erase, and a string of clues in the treasure hunt game-the wife had arranged it every year for her adoring husband. And it seems that these clues offer a chance to shed light on the fate of the disappeared.

Gone Girl (2014) film was made by . Main stars of the movie: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris. You can find Gone Girl (2014) in the the next genre categories: Drama, Mystery, Thriller and Gone Girl (2014) has average rating 8.1, according to Screench user votes.

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17 Changeling (2008) ★ 7.7

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Los Angeles, 1928. Single mother Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie) returns from work to find her nine-year-old son Walter (Gattlin Griffith) gone. She calls the L.A.P.D. to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description, and he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the L.A.P.D. reunite mother and son, but she insists he's not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the Police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power?

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