Movies Like The Spanish Prisoner

If you liked The Spanish Prisoner (1997), a drama and mystery movie directed by David Mamet, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Obsession (1976)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and mystery
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.
2
Remember (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and thriller
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
3
The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim…
4
Overdrive (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and mystery
Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.
5
Primer (2004)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller
A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.
6
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and mystery
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
7
The Red House (1947)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and thriller
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
8
Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and mystery
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
9
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and mystery
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order…
10
Fedora (1978)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and mystery
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.
11
The Social Reckoning (2026)
★ 7/10Also drama and thriller
Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets.
12
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
★ 7.5/10Also thriller and mystery
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle…
13
2073 (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and drama
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and…
14
The Conversation (1974)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and mystery
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
15
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery and thriller
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
16
The Sense of an Ending (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and drama
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
17
Elephant Song (2015)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and mystery
A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
18
Woman on the Run (1950)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and mystery
Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible retaliation. Frank's wife, Eleanor, suspects he…
19
Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and drama
As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.
20
The Organization (1971)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for…