Movies like Wind River

If you want Wind River's blend of methodical procedural tension and systemic indifference toward marginalized communities, you'd likely connect with Dark Winds, which applies the same Sheridan blueprint to 1970s Navajo land, or Mystery Road, where detective work becomes secondary to exposing institutional racism in an isolated setting. Down River and Winter Ridge probably offer the closest tonal match—both pair mounting dread with economically devastated rural communities where institutional failure matters more than solving the case—though they're set in Appalachia rather than Native American reservations. The older options (Mystery Ranch, Shadow Ranch, Hunt for Justice) share the patient investigation structure and explore how isolation and systemic indifference obstruct justice, but with less contemporary sharpness around institutional racism.