If you like the suspenseful movie Gone Girl, you’ll probably enjoy these films as well.
David Fincher also directed The Social Network and Fight Club and created a groundbreaking psychological thriller with 2014’s Gone Girl. The movie is propelled by an intense and dramatic plot, with a surprising turn at the climax. It is adorned by the brilliant performances of Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike (the latter of whom was nominated for an Academy Award). Gillian Flynn wrote the novel from which the film was adapted and wrote the screenplay.
Gone Girl is still one of Fincher’s highest-rated films, and he is known for making complex thrillers that challenge the audience’s thinking. Here are 11 Thrilling Movies with Big Twists Just Like Gone Girl.
Prisoners (2013)
After his daughter and her friend go missing from their neighborhood, a distraught father (Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049) takes matters into his own hands and begins searching for them. Hugh Jackman of the X-Men, and Jake Gyllenhaal, of the same franchise give powerful performances as a distraught parent and a police detective, respectively. Brilliant direction by Villeneuve and a unique, well-written story by Guzikowski combine to create a film of similar caliber and atmosphere to Gone Girl.
Shutter Island (2010)
In Shutter Island, they are starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, the plot centers around a missing patient from a psychiatric hospital located on a deserted island. Two U.S. Marshals go to Shutter Island to look into the incident, and the audience learns everything about the island’s sinister past as they do so.
An excellent psychological thriller, thanks to Martin Scorsese’s expert direction and Leonardo DiCaprio’s stunning performance. The climactic revelation at the end is one that no one could foresee, making this a film that needs to be seen more than once to be fully appreciated.
Memento (2000)
Directed and written by The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, Memento follows the story of Leonard, a former investigator. He can no longer produce new memories owing to his amnesia as he seeks to find his wife’s killer.
He suffers from short-term memory loss. Therefore, he must develop innovative strategies to retain the information crucial to solving the murder. The narrative method of Memento makes it a difficult film to follow. Yet, that difficulty is a significant element of the film’s appeal and helped it get an Oscar nomination. Gone Girl fans will adore this ingenious and thrilling take on the classic mystery thriller genre.
Fight Club (1999)
David Fincher’s second feature picture is a cinematic cult classic known worldwide. The film stars Brad Pitt and Edward Norton as two guys who start a fight club as a joke but end up with a problem when the members begin killing each other.
There’s a massive reveal at the conclusion, and the film needs to be seen more than once to pick up on all the subtle nuances.
Mystic River (2003)
Adapted by Clint Eastwood from Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name, Mystic River examines the aftermath of a little girl’s death in a tight-knit Boston neighborhood through the eyes of three men who shared their childhood but ended up on opposite sides of the law.
One of Eastwood’s most exemplary directorial efforts, the film received six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won two awards (for Best Actor and Supporting Actor).
Burning (2018)
Conversely, Chang-dong Lee’s gorgeously shot mystery is a haunting tale that gets under the audience’s skin through ambiguity and a near-indescribable atmosphere running throughout. It follows a young man who is aimless and unsure of his life as he meets a mysteriously wealthy Gatsby type who becomes the prime suspect in the disappearance of a mutual friend.
Burning is a memorable psychological thriller that feeds on the uncertainty it causes, and it’s just as damning about the wealth gap in modern Korea as a film like the groundbreaking foreign blockbuster Parasite.
Tell No One (2006)
Tell No One, based on the novel of the same name by American writer Harlan Coben, is a very successful yet somewhat underrated French thriller directed by Guillaume Canet. It tells the story of a grieving pediatrician trying to get over the murder of his wife by a prolific serial killer eight years earlier. However, his entire world is thrown upside down when he receives a mystery email implying that she is somehow still alive.
It’s a must-watch for mystery thriller fans, especially those who enjoy impromptu detectives and complex scenarios.
Nightcrawler (2014)
Jake Gyllenhaal’s portrayal of Lou Bloom, an amateur freelance photojournalist whose obsession with fame and success drives him to a path filled with psychopathic methods and ultimately madness, is widely considered in Spider-Man: Far From Home to be the career highlight of the actor’s acting career.
The picture, written and directed by Dan Gilroy, was a financial and critical triumph, earning six times its budget at the box office. There was a lot of buzz about Gyllenhaal’s performance, but the film was lauded enough to make a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination.
The Girl on the Train (2016)
The Girl on the Train, starring Emily Blunt of A Quiet Place, is directed by On Up’s Tate Taylor and follows the story of Rachel Watson, a divorced alcoholic. Involving a missing person’s inquiry of the latter forever changes her life.
The film, adapted from Paula Hawkins’s novel of the same name, addresses weighty social topics like spousal abuse and alcoholism. Neither the film’s reviewers nor its audience was enthusiastic about it, even though it was a financial triumph (netting $173 million on a budget of under $50 million).
A Simple Favor (2018)
Starring Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect) and Blake Lively (Gossip Girl), “A Simple Favor” appears to be a light-hearted black comedy, but it’s a twist-filled murder mystery.
Paul Feig, who directed Ghostbusters, helms this comedy about a mommy blogger named Stephanie Smothers who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a woman named Emily Nelson. The film’s plot is strikingly similar to that of Gone Girl. In the middle of the movie, one of the main characters suddenly disappears, only to reemerge at the end when her criminal nature is finally revealed.
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
In addition to sharing a similar title with Fincher’s Gone Girl, Gone Baby Gone also features Ben Affleck, who plays Nick Dunne in that film, in the director’s chair. Casey Affleck, Ben Affleck’s brother, and Michelle Monaghan, who played the villain in Mission: Impossible, are two detectives looking into the abduction of a child. In his directorial debut, Ben Affleck does a fine job of bringing the 1998 detective novel to the big screen.
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