30 Best Movies Like The Body 2012
The Body is an amazing Spanish mystery thriller movie. If you like such mystery movies and want to see more, you are in the right place. In this article, we are bringing you the best movies like The Body you just need to see.
Some of the movies on this list are big Hollywood blockbusters, while others are just amazing mystery gems. Still, whichever you choose, you can’t go wrong, as all the movies on this list will give you the same mystery vibe such as The Body. Check them out below.
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
BenjamÃn Chaparro has just retired after a lifetime of working as an employee of the Criminal Court. To fill his free time, he decides to write a novel based on a real story he witnessed and in which he played a leading role. At first glance, the novel is a story about a murder that happened in Buenos Aires in 1973 and about the investigation of the perpetrator.
But once he opens the door to the past, it becomes impossible for Chaparro to close it again. Namely, the turbulent Argentina of those times permeates the lives of his characters with its burden of violence and death. Although Chaparro believes that the story he is telling is only about the past, his search begins to shed light on his own present life and forces him to face the love dilemma that has haunted him for too long.
Reconstructing the past will encourage him to delve deep into his own feelings, behavior and decisions. By discovering the truth, he will not only achieve his literary goal, but also find the key that will open the door to the rest of his life.
Secret in Their Eyes (2015)
A well-coordinated team of successful investigators – Ray (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Jess Cobb (Julia Roberts), together with the boss Claire Sloan (Nicole Kidman), suddenly tear apart the brutal and inexplicable murder of Jess’s teenage daughter.
13 years later, after a daily search for the killer, Ray finally finds a new clue that he is sure can solve the whole case and put the killer behind bars. But no one is prepared for a shocking and incomprehensible secret that will reveal the permanently destructive effects of personal revenge on the human soul.
It is the remake of the Argentinian movie from above, The Secret in Their Eyes.
Mirage (2018)
Some mysterious interference between two-time epochs will cause Vera, a happily married mother, to save the life of a boy who lived in her house 25 years earlier. But the consequences of her action will cause a chain reaction that will result in a new reality in which her daughter was never born…
The Orphanage (2007)
Laura spent her earliest childhood in an orphanage, which she has fond memories of. Now married and a mother, she returns to the orphanage, where she opens a home for handicapped children. But the atmosphere of the once beautiful place has completely changed.
Her 7-year-old son Simon will soon acquire several imaginary friends who will amuse him but also scare him with their stories. Soon, Simon will fear for their safety.
Identity (2003)
A sudden rainstorm in a remote desert town brings together a diverse group of people in a dilapidated motel. Relief at finding shelter soon replaces fear as the ten passengers, one by one, begin to die.
Ten strangers isolated in a deserted motel die one by one. In IDENTITY, a psychological thriller with shockingly original and disturbing twists, ten strangers with hidden secrets gather during a terrible storm. A limo driver (John Cusack), an eighties TV star (Rebecca DeMornay), a cop (Ray Liotta) transporting a killer (Jake Busey), a prostitute (Amanda Peet), a young couple (Clea DuVall and William Lee Scott) and a family in crisis (John C. McGinley, Leila Kenzle, Bret Loehr) all find shelter in a deserted motel run by a nervous night manager (John Hawkes).
Relief at finding shelter soon replaces fear as the ten passengers, one by one, begin to die. It soon becomes clear to them that, if they want to survive, they must discover the secret that brought them all here.
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Christine Lucas (Nicole Kidman) wakes up every morning in an unknown room next to an unknown man (Colin Firth). He doesn’t know where she is or who she is.
Soon she learns that the unknown man is her husband Ben and that after the car accident she experienced, she loses a new memory every day as soon as she falls asleep. Trying to reconstruct the past, Christine digs through things and comes across a camera on which she recorded a message to herself.
Dream House (2011)
A young couple moves into a seemingly perfect house of the future. The whole house is run by a computer and it seems like things couldn’t be better for them. However, things go awry when the computer decides to get rid of the unwanted guests.
The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)
Carl Morck, a troubled detective, is assigned to the newly created “Department Q”, a basement-bound job filing cold cases. He is allocated an assistant, Assad, and between them they review the case files to determine which ones can be closed.
Julia’s Eyes (2010)
After the death of the blind Sara, who hanged herself in the basement of her house, her twin sister Julia suspects that she was actually murdered. Julia has a degenerative problem with her eyes and is losing her sight, and she temporarily moves with her husband Isaac to Sara’s house to arrange her funeral. Julia goes to the Centro Baumann for the blind, which Sara frequented, and she learns from other members that Sara had a boyfriend.
Julia is chased by a mysterious man, but police inspector Dimas does not believe her. Julia follows Sara’s last steps in trying to find the identity of her secret lover. Julia is surrounded by deaths and weird events while she loses her sight.
Loft (2008)
5 friends who are all married and know each other very well decide to rent a loft together. In this loft, they meet their mistresses. Everything is OK until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft.
The 5 friends begin to suspect each other of murder. And it becomes clear that they don’t know each other as well as they always thought.
Forgotten (2017)
An idyllic and happy family moves into their new house. Not long after, the older son is kidnapped and inexplicably returns after 19 days. No one in the family notices anything strange, except for the younger son, who realizes that his brother, the person he has admired all his life, is actually someone else.
Anna (2013)
John Washington (Mark Strong), is a memory detective and can enter people’s minds and help them recall details that can help solve crimes or heal trauma.
The latest case he deals with is the brilliant but troubled 16-year-old Anna (Taissa Farmiga), the daughter of rich parents who is on hunger strike, and John’s task is to get inside her mind and find out why, if Anna is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Zodiac (2007)
The link between a string of murders in Northern California during the 60s and 70s are letters the killer apparently sent to San Francisco dailies, demanding they be published or he would kill someone again. The letters are accompanied by numbers – coded messages – which the killer says contain clues to his identity.
Robert Graysmith, a cartoonist for one of the papers – the San Francisco Chronicle – and also an amateur cryptologist, becomes fascinated … actually obsessed … with solving the case.
Fracture (2007)
When Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) discovers that his young wife Jennifer (Embeth Davidtz) is cheating on him, he plans her murder… The perfect murder. Among the policemen who arrived at the scene of the crime was negotiator Detective Rob Nunally (Billy Burke), the only officer allowed to enter the house.
Crawford, astonishingly, admits to killing his wife, but Nunally is too stunned to care when he recognizes his lover, whose true identity he never knew, lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Although Jennifer was shot at point-blank range, Nunally notes that she is not dead. Crawford was immediately arrested and charged after confessing.
The case seemed simple to young Assistant District Attorney Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), who is on his way out of the District Attorney’s office (David Strathairn) and on his way to a lucrative job in high-risk commercial law.
The Loft (2014)
A tense psychological thriller about five men who secretly rent an apartment in the attic, where they can enjoy their secret affairs without fear and realize their greatest fantasies. However, the fantasy becomes a nightmare when they find the dead body of an unknown woman in the apartment and realize that one of them has something to do with the event.
They become paranoid as they each suspect each other, which calls into question their friendship and loyalty. At the same time, under the pressure of fear, suspicion and murder, their marriages begin to fall apart.
Secret Window (2004)
Although he knows he should be sitting at the computer and writing a new book or at least walking his dog around the lake not far from his cabin, successful writer Mort Rainey (Johnny Depp) mostly spends his time sleeping on his favorite couch for 16 hours a day. She is in the middle of a painful breakup that has gotten complicated and uncomfortable.
The separation completely deprived him of energy and creativity, leaving him at the mercy of a mental block so strong that he is unable to form even a simple sentence. Then, when things seemingly couldn’t get any worse, a psychotic stranger named John Shooter (John Turturro) shows up on his doorstep accusing Rainey of stealing his story and demanding satisfaction.
Forced into a puzzling game of cat and mouse, Rainey discovers that he possesses far more determination and will than he ever imagined.
Shutter Island (2010)
Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), are two federal sheriffs investigating the disappearance of a convicted murderer who escaped from a mental institution and is suspected of hiding on remote Shutter Island.
The whole situation suddenly gets complicated after the island is hit by a big storm that separates them from the rest of the world.
Gone Girl (2014)
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike will star in the tense story about a wife who doesn’t show up for her 5th wedding anniversary. They play the perfect married couple, Nick and Amy, who live peacefully in the provinces after moving from New York.
The beloved members of the tiny community will become #1 national news when the search for the missing Amy reveals that Nick is the prime suspect, and her diary reveals an entirely different side of their perfect marriage…
Marshland (2014)
Multiple award-winning thrillers by Alberto Rodriguez, winner of the prestigious Goya Award in several categories, with the story of a crazed serial killer on his bloody rampage.
The story follows two detectives who are forced to put aside all their differences in order to put a murderer behind bars and save innocent girls.
The Hidden Face (2011)
Adrian is a young conductor who is watching a video in which his girlfriend Belen tells him that she is leaving him. Adrian is desperate. While he cures his sadness by drinking, he meets Fabiana in a bar, who will soon move into his house.
Adrian, on the other hand, becomes a suspect in the case of the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend Belen, but the investigators cannot prove that he is guilty…
The Invisible Guest (2016)
Trapped in a violent relationship with a rich and brilliant scientist, Cecilia Kate escapes under the cover of night and hides with the help of her sister, a longtime friend and his daughter. But after Cecilia’s ex-partner commits suicide and leaves her a sizable inheritance, Cecilia doubts the truth of the suicide story.
At the same time, inexplicable and deadly things begin to happen to her that threaten her and everyone she cares about, and her mind slowly begins to leave her as she tries to prove to everyone that she is being pursued by someone that no one can see.
Confession of Murder (2012)
October 1986. In a small town not far from Seoul, the corpse of a young girl was found. The investigation is taken over by local police detective Park Doo-man (S. Kang-ho) who is determined to solve the case quickly. But things get complicated when another murdered woman is soon found, which leads the police to conclude that the crimes are connected and that the victims dressed in red were killed during the rain.
Thinking that a bystander is a perpetrator, Park Doo-man beats him up, but realizes that it is his colleague from the capital, Seo Tae-yoon (K. Sang-kyung), who has come to help him in the investigation. And while Park is an incorrigible brute, Sao tries to find the killer using different methods. However, their first arrestee is not the one they are looking for…
Sara’s Notebook (2018)
Laura Alonso is a Spanish lawyer from Madrid who arrives Democratic Republic of Congo (center of Africa) to watch a photo where Sara, her younger sister, appears alive after two years without clues about her location.
Dark Places (2015)
Libby Day was eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas home. Almost thirty years after the unfortunate event, she agrees to visit the crime scene and will uncover many truths that led to the brutal act.
The Invisible Guardian (2017)
Near the bank of the Bastan river in the Navarre valley, the naked dead body of an adolescent girl appears under circumstances that connect it to a murder that happened a month earlier. Inspector Amaja Salasar leads an investigation that will bring her back to Elisonda, the village where she grew up and from which she tried to escape all her life.
Faced with the complex development of this case and with her own ghosts, Amaja’s investigation will turn into a race against time in the hunt for an inexorable killer in an environment that is fertile ground for superstitions and witchcraft.
Whiteout (2009)
Commander Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) is stationed at a base in Antarctica. Soon the period is coming when the sun is setting and will not appear for the next half year, and young Carrie must find a ruthless mysterious killer. In this seemingly impossible task, she is helped by the UN agent, Robert Pryce (Gabriel Macht).
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
As he sits blindfolded in the police station in front of Lieutenant Randall (D. Douglas) and his colleague Nulty (P. Phillips), temporarily blind detective Philip Marlowe (D. Powell) recalls a case that resulted in several murders. It all started when the corpulent “Los” Malloy (M. Mazurki), who had just been released from prison, entered his office and hired Marlowe to find his missing girlfriend Velma Valento.
She worked as a dancer at the bar of Jessie Florian (E. Howard), who no longer owns the bar and does not know where Velma could be now. While searching for Velma, Marlowe agrees to be a bodyguard for Lindsay Marriott (D. Walton), who must take a large sum of money from the thieves of her necklace on behalf of the attractive Helen Grayle (C. Trevor).
After Marlowe is attacked and Marriott killed in the operation of delivering money, and after Helen’s stepdaughter Ann Grayle (A. Shirley) gets involved in everything, events will take an unexpected course and the corpses will begin to pile up…
Basic (2003)
Sergeant Nathan West (S. L. Jackson) leads an elite unit of special forces, Army Rangers, on a routine exercise in the jungles of Panama. During the exercise, a hurricane hits the area and West and almost the entire unit disappears, except for two surviving soldiers – Raymond Dunbar (B. Van Holt) and Levi Kendall (G. Ribisi). Captain Julia Osborne (C. Nielsen), commander of the military police of Fort Clayton barracks, is assigned to investigate what really happened in the jungle, but the statements of the two survivors are contradictory and point to the possibility of a crime.
Osborne enlists the help of investigator Tom Hardy (J. Travolta), a former Ranger who knows Sergeant West, his former commander, well. As West is followed by the voice of a tough, cruel commander who is not popular among the soldiers, the investigation becomes very complex and Hardy tries to find out the real truth from the conflicting testimonies.
The Girl on the Train (2016)
Rachel Watson (E. Blunt) is an alcoholic and has been aimlessly riding the train ever since she got fired. She is obsessed with the life of her ex-husband Tom Watson (J. Theroux) and his new wife Anna (R. Ferguson) and their idealized neighbors Scott (L. Evans) and Megan (H. Bennett) Hipwell. Megan was a nanny for the Watsons, but recently quit her job.
Rachel sees Megan kissing a stranger from the train and it infuriates her. He intends to call Megan out on this, however, he wakes up a few hours later in his bed, covered in blood. Megan is missing, and Rachel is questioned by Detective Riley (A. Janney) because she was last seen near Megan’s house that day…
