If You Liked The Mean Season, Watch These Next
Finished The Mean Season (1985) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Mean Season, most of them are mystery, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Mr. Arkadin(1955)
6.8MysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning…
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2.Cult Killer(2024)
6.4MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso mystery and thriller
A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
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3.Black Rainbow(1989)
5.9MysteryThrillerHorrorAlso mystery and thriller
Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with their loved ones still alive, in public performances. Trouble begins when she gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband, Tom. But Tom isn't dead... yet. And Martha not only knows he will die, she also knows who…
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4.Mindcage(2022)
5.9MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso mystery and thriller
Detectives Jake Doyle and Mary Kelly seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist when a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist's brilliant but twisted psyche, she and Jake are lured into a diabolical game of cat and mouse, racing against time to stay one step ahead of…
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5.Chief of Station(2024)
6.3ActionThrillerAlso thriller
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
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7.The Infernal Machine(2022)
6.3ThrillerMysteryAlso thriller and mystery
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. Cogburn's search for who is behind the manipulation and mental torment he…
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8.The 9th Life of Louis Drax(2016)
6.4MysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.
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10.Cleaner(2007)
6.1CrimeThrillerMysteryAlso thriller and mystery
Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may have unknowingly erased crucial evidence, entangling himself in a dirty criminal cover-up.
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11.Play Dead(2022)
6.1HorrorThrillerAlso thriller
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a…
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12.The Jester(2023)
6.1HorrorThrillerAlso thriller
A malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween night, including two estranged sisters who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.
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13.Barron's Cove(2025)
7.2CrimeThrillerDramaAlso thriller
When his young son is viciously murdered by a classmate, a grieving father with a history of violence kidnaps the child responsible, igniting a frenzied manhunt fueled by a powerful politician -- the father of the kidnapped boy.
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14.The Ritual Killer(2023)
5.8MysteryThrillerActionAlso mystery and thriller
Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an anthropologist who hides an unspeakable secret. The line between sanity and madness thins as Boyd goes…
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15.All the Devils Are Here(2025)
6.3ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso thriller and mystery
After a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.
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16.Night of the Hunted(2023)
6.1HorrorMysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.
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18.The Locksmith(2023)
5.9ThrillerMysteryActionAlso thriller and mystery
A thief fresh out of prison, tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an unexpected disappearance.
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19.You'll Never Find Me(2024)
6.1HorrorThrillerAlso thriller
Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more…
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20.Like Minds(2006)
6.3ThrillerMysteryHorrorAlso thriller and mystery
A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.
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