Movies like The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)
The best movies like The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013) are A Conspiracy of Faith (2016), The Absent One (2014) and The Purity of Vengeance (2018). If The Keeper of Lost Causes hooked you with its thriller and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)7.5/10 from 3,379 votes
- NewestColors of Evil: Red (2024)Released 2024
- Same seriesA Conspiracy of Faith (2016)Department Q
A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)
Denmark, 2016. A blurred note is found in a bottle that has traveled across the ocean for a long time. After deciphering the cryptic note, Department Q follow a sinister trail that leads them to investigate a case that occurred in 2008. At the same time, new tragic events take place that test their faith and deepest beliefs.
Why it matches: Same series: Department Q · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Absent One (2014)
Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.
Why it matches: Same series: Department Q · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Purity of Vengeance (2018)
Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties.
Why it matches: Same series: Department Q · both crime & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFalse Trail (2011)
The Interrogator Erik Backstrom is forced to return to his former home village to solve a murder mystery, in which the local polices and some hunters and even Erik's family seems to be involved. Soon, the conflicts are in full action, especially between Erik and the local police Torsten. Torsten does not support Erik very much in his job and has, for some personal reasons, already arrested a suspected perpetrator. Eric takes great risks when he starts digging in the criminal material of the horrible murder case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoundless (2024)
In a moment of cowardice, Detective Carl Mørck sends Rose, his junior colleague in Department Q, to the remote Danish island of Bornholm to answer his old colleague Christian Habersaat's repeated requests. But during his forced retirement ceremony Christian kills himself sending Rose into a journey deep into her own traumatic past. Later, Department Q are embroiled into an old cold case of a girl found dead hanging in a tree.
Why it matches: Same series: Department Q · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisMarshland (2014)
The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThose Who Kill - Shadow of the Past (2012)
Detective Katrine Ries Jensen and legal psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer form a special unit at the Copenhagen Police investigating serial killings. A case from Schaeffer’s past crops up. As a young psychologist, he held back from sending a patient, who was manically drawing the details of a traffic accident, to a secure hospital. Now these bloody scenes resurface, enacted as real killings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
The Treatment (2014)
Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all - looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. Then, when a disturbing case comes to light involving a missing nine-year-old, Nick heads a massive search which turns into a relentless manhunt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hunters (1996)
A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Girl in the Fog (2017)
A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Crimson Rivers (2000)
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisColors of Evil: Red (2024)
When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTell No One (2006)
A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHeadhunters (2011)
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Snowman (2017)
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeck: The Last Day (2016)
Two traffic officers on a quiet morning shift try to stop a car for speeding. When the car finally pulls over, the driver gets out and shoots at them, killing one of the officers in cold blood. A national alert is issued and an extensive search for the ruthless killer begins, with the Beck group at the lead. Neither the officer’s shocked and wounded colleague nor any of the witnesses have seen anything helpful to the police. Finally, they find the car registration number using a surveillance camera. But, when they enter the car owner’s apartment, they find him shot to death. The first day of summer is a long one for the Beck group, as the killer has more victims on his list.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
The Legacy of the Bones (2019)
Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeck 31 - Gunvald (2016)
An investigative journalist is found beaten to death in his home, where the fingerprints of a notorious criminal debt collector are also found. The murdered journalist has been threatened by right wing extremists, but it is the victim’s work with a book about “society’s dark side” that captures the Beck group’s interest. When the case takes an unexpected and terrible turn, there is suddenly much more at stake than finding the journalist’s killer. Martin Beck and his colleagues have never had to protect the balance of their professional and private lives with the same tenacity as they do now.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Varg Veum - Cold Hearts (2012)
Varg Veum is going to be a father. In a way he could never imagine, life takes on a new direction while he is searching for a missing pair of siblings in the prostitution circles in Bergen. Varg realizes that life will never be the same when he has to make a decision: Let the criminals go free or expose Karin to mortal danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Insomnia (1997)
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Vanishing (1988)
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRoom of Death (2007)
While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discover the body of a kidnapped 12-year blind girl, Melody, in a warehouse near the site of the hit-and-run. They determine that the kidnapper saw the girl's father bringing the ransom to him and also witnessed the hit-and-run and the men stealing the ransom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Grain of Truth (2015)
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnnika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - A Place in the Sun (2012)
A Swedish family found murdered in her home on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain - all except the 16-year-old daughter, who has disappeared. At first the police believe that there is a burglary gone wrong, but the more crime examined, the more remarkable it becomes. When the burglars also found dead paralyzed the entire investigation. The offense sends a shockwave that shakes, and even on the crime-ridden Costa del Sol.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
The Hidden Face (2011)
A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Guilty (2018)
Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Invisible Guardian (2017)
When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán, it is quickly linked to a similar murder one month before. Soon, rumours are flying in the nearby village of Elizondo. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or is it the basajaun, the ‘invisible guardian’ of Basque mythology? Inspector Amaia Salazar leads the investigation, taking her back to the heart of the Basque country where she was born, and where she hoped never to return. Shrouded in mist and surrounded by impenetrable forests, it is a place of unresolved conflicts and a terrible secret from Amaia’s childhood that will come back to haunt her. Faced with the superstitions of the village, Amaia must fight the demons of her past to confront the reality of a serial killer on the loose. But as she is drawn deeper into the investigation, she feels the presence of something darker lurking in the shadows…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous 'Marsh King', the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
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What are the best movies like The Keeper of Lost Causes?
The closest matches to The Keeper of Lost Causes are A Conspiracy of Faith (2016), The Absent One (2014) and The Purity of Vengeance (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Keeper of Lost Causes?
People who watched The Keeper of Lost Causes most often go on to False Trail (2011), Marshland (2014) and Those Who Kill - Shadow of the Past (2012).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Keeper of Lost Causes?
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), rated 7.5/10 by 3,379 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Keeper of Lost Causes?
Colors of Evil: Red (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Is The Keeper of Lost Causes part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Department Q, which includes A Conspiracy of Faith (2016), The Absent One (2014), The Purity of Vengeance (2018) and Boundless (2024).
How are movies similar to The Keeper of Lost Causes chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Keeper of Lost Causes, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.