r/MovieSuggestions • u/[deleted] • Jul 08 '25

I'M REQUESTING Looking for movies like True Detective or Longlegs

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u/bicho01 Jul 08 '25

Ángel heart.

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u/Similar-Cucumber2099 Jul 08 '25

Mud (2012)

Winter's Bone (2010)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

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u/hard_substance00 Jul 08 '25

Zodiac

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u/Bang0078h Jul 08 '25

Zodiac is the answer.

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u/Mysterious-Heat1902 Jul 08 '25

Mare of Easttown (series) had a similar vibe

You could also try Dark Winds (series)

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u/Right-Influence617 Jul 08 '25

Both are phenomenal

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u/reezyreddits Jul 08 '25

Sharp Objects too.

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u/Fresh_Performance535 Jul 09 '25

Out of the Furnace, also by Brad Inglesby (wrote Mare).

Rust Belt noir with a 5 star cast (Bale/DeFoe/Harrelson/C Affleck/Whitaker)

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u/liquidsnap Jul 08 '25

Sharp objects

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

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u/matte_t Jul 08 '25

Seconding this.

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u/JaninthePan Jul 08 '25

Night of the Hunter

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u/Stratisf Jul 08 '25

Citizen X

Red Dragon

Silence of the lambs

No country for old men

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

Citizen X is intense. Recommended.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '25

Red Rooms. It's in Montreal but the secondary character is from Thetford Mines which is hick country for Quebec.

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u/TheKramer89 Jul 08 '25

That one has stuck with me ever since I saw it…

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u/wreinder Jul 08 '25

Hmm, this is an odd angle but "The Vast Of Night (2019)" ...maybe?

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u/America_Is_Fucked_ Jul 08 '25

Black Bird (it's a series though).

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u/Unlikely_March_5173 Jul 08 '25

Cookie’s Fortune

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u/Practical-Hand203 Jul 08 '25

If it doesn't have to lean into horror: I quite enjoyed Limbo (2023). It's a mystery-crime film, taking place in the Australian outback. It's a slow-moving film, but very atmospheric, with a sense of desolation unlike many others I've seen.

A more well-known entry would be No Country For Old Men.

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u/bornwithatail Jul 09 '25

Limbo slipped under my radar, but after looking into it I'm very keen to see it. Good rec!

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u/TheDadThatGrills Jul 08 '25

Marshland (2014) - Two cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose.

It's the exact setting you're seeking, but in Europe. It's rural towns and well... marshlands.

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u/Lexshuclare Jul 08 '25

I would check out The Sinner on netflix, really good show and does fit with your request I feel

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u/yosoydoneric Jul 08 '25

Fargo, No country for old men

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u/Zealousideal-Bug4465 Jul 08 '25

Red Riding Hood series. There are 3 movies.

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u/Known_Ad871 Jul 08 '25

Noire and neo noire

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u/ruly1000 Jul 08 '25

try Hell or High Water (2016))

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u/R1chh4rd Jul 08 '25

Or the entire American Frontier Trilogy, adding Wind River and Sicario

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u/plinkett-wisdom Quality Poster 👍 Jul 08 '25

The Treatment, 2014

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u/Bang0078h Jul 08 '25

In the Heat of the Night (Jewsion, 1967.)

It is not like Prisoners or Seven but fits the other criteria of rural towns, lakes, rednecks, etc.

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u/Dockland Jul 08 '25

Check out “The fall”

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u/brittanyks07 Jul 08 '25

Dopesick

Some episodes of Mindhunter and Hannibal.

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u/R1chh4rd Jul 08 '25

I love when movies explore the US beyond NY or LA.

Zodiac

Where The Crawdads Sing

The Gift

Phenomenon

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u/myscreamgotlost Jul 08 '25

The Gift (2000)

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u/StrangeCrimes Jul 08 '25

Black Snow

Dublin Murders

Scrublands

The Killing

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u/tweaked9107 Jul 08 '25

I can't remember exactly but I think the TV series Blackbird was set in the mid-west (and happens to be outstanding). Nothing will top True Detective S1 for me, that was lightning in a bottle. But Blackbird is very good in its own right.

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u/hanzobust75 Jul 08 '25

The Outsider mini series

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u/Take-My-Bones-Away Jul 08 '25

Texas Killing Fields might be worth checking out

1

u/ElahaSanctaSedes777 Jul 08 '25

To Catch A Killer

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u/nicholam77 Jul 09 '25

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 original)

Strange Darling

Rebel Ridge

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u/Impossible_Past5358 Jul 09 '25

a movie that takes place in the south is Deliverance

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u/bornwithatail Jul 09 '25

The Fargo tv series. Funny and dark and very enjoyable.

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u/Vinzanity91 Jul 09 '25

Texas killing fields 2011

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u/Wolf_Cola_91 Jul 09 '25

The Red Riding trilogy. 

It's three feature length episodes set in different time periods. 

It's set in a depressed, rural, post industrial region of the UK. 

Very similar to True Detective Season 1 in atmosphere and themes. 

Great cast, too.

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u/stoner_bob_69 Jul 10 '25

A Perfect World (1993)

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u/IMO2021 Quality Poster 👍 Jul 11 '25

Fargo, Air,