Movies like Secret Window

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Secret Window (2004)
 6.5
 201K
Secret Window (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, bad ending, dark, enigmatic ...
Plot: psychology, insanity, twists and turns, suspense, split personality, losing-it hero, isolation, nervous breakdown, murder, macabre, writer's life, mental illness, mentally unstable, paranoia, obsession, investigation, guilt, moral ambiguity, plot twist, murder mystery, infidelity, mental disorder, husband murders wife, disturbed individual, deeply disturbed person ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state, mississippi river

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Most similar movies to Secret Window

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, twist ending, suspenseful and interesting films with plots about twists and turns, secrets, suspense, storytelling, psychology, plot twist and dialogue mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Secret Window: The Number 23 (2007), Dream House (2011), What Lies Beneath (2000), Enemy (2013), Shutter Island (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 6.4
 206K
The Number 23 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, twists and turns, obsession, murder, losing-it hero, paranoia, a vision, uncover truth, escape from reality, investigation, plot twist, psychology ...
Place: los angeles, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 68K
Dream House (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, twists and turns, haunted house, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, suspense, murder, mental patient, ghost, nervous breakdown, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style: suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, scary, twist ending ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, suspense, adultery, couple relations, losing-it hero, infidelity, supernatural horror, supernatural, woman in danger, haunted by the past, spiritualism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: vermont, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 199K
Enemy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style: surreal, psychological, twist ending, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doppelganger, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, mental illness, nightmare, suspense, surrealism, obsession, spider, disturbed individual, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 8.2
 1.3M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, investigation, mental illness, insanity, suspense, plot twist, psychology, paranoia, psychiatrist, mental institution, memory, isolation ...
Time: year 1954, 1940s, year 1945, 20th century, year 1952 ...
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 7.7
 397K
The Machinist (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surreal, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Plot: insanity, insomnia, hallucination, uncover truth, paranoia, obsession, twists and turns, mysterious character, suspense, losing-it hero, loneliness, schizophrenia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 7.7
 228K
Primal Fear (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style: surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, neo noir, tense ...
Plot: twists and turns, mental illness, court, plot twist, murder, corruption, psychopath, lawyer, courtroom, legal investigation, psychology, courtroom drama ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 8.2
 1.0M
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: ghost, twists and turns, supernatural, afterlife, suspense, psychology, death, psychiatrist, life & death, plot twist, child, boy ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
Place: usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Movie in collections
 8.6
 1.7M
Se7en (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style: suspenseful, surprise ending, disturbing, scary, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, insanity, police investigation, murder, suspense, killings, sin ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.7
 405K
The Game (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, intellectual ...
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, manipulation, suspense, mind game, game, uncover truth, scheme, life turned upside down, life philosophy, existentialism, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: san francisco, usa, california, mexico, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Style: twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, psychological ...
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, insanity, mental patient, psychiatrist, doctors, plot twist, suspense, doctors and patients, conspiracy, mad scientist ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1900
Place: england, usa, tuscany, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 254K
Identity (2003)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style: twist ending, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, mental disorder, suspense, murder mystery, psychology, investigation, murderer, murder, stranded, twists and turns, split personality, mental illness ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.9
 87K
Hide and Seek (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: imaginary friend, suspense, plot twist, split personality, twists and turns, psychologist, mental illness, haunted by the past, ghost, murder, single father, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 187K
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.
Style: gothic, dark, satanic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: occult, supernatural, devil, investigation, collector, obsession, secret society, chase, curses spells and rituals, murder, satanism, artifact ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, paris france, france, spain, south of france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.8
 239K
Disturbia (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, intense, psychological, scary ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, neighbor, voyeurism, house arrest, paranoia, suspense, murder, loneliness, investigation, death, arrest, teenager ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.2
 47K
The Hole (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style: psychological, scary, twist ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: obsession, claustrophobia, survival, trapped, psychology, school, bunker, underground bunker, youth, twists and turns, isolation, teenager ...
Place: wales, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, gothic, mysterious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, plot twist, occult, voodoo, witchcraft, supernatural horror, twists and turns, suspense, ritual, black magic, macabre, supernatural ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.6
 113K
The Invitation (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is ...
Style: scary, twist ending, dark, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: dinner party, suicide, obsession, conspiracy, suspense, suspicion, cult, deception, old friend, insanity, vengeance, survival ...
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 8.1
 998K
Gone Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, clever, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, suspense, missing person, investigation, infidelity, murder mystery, marriage, manipulation, psychology, adultery, missing wife, disappearance ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york, missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.2
 300K
Insomnia (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style: atmospheric, neo noir, psychological, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot: police investigation, small town, murder, investigation, character study, investigator, police, suspense, police corruption, snow, guilt, murderer ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.6
 93K
The Box (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million ...
Style: enigmatic, mind bending, psychological, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: suspense, moral dilemma, supernatural, human nature, experiment, psychology, decision, life & death, conspiracy, research, mysterious character, stranger ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, langley virginia, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, scary, mind bending ...
Plot: mental illness, ghost, suicide, twists and turns, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, haunted house, tragedy, suspense, children, guilt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, south korea, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 60K
Session 9 (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style: psychological, scary, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychology, supernatural, mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, lobotomy, ghost, haunted house, suspense, insanity, transformation, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Movie in collections
 7.0
 162K
The Gift (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a "friend" from the husband's past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot: suspense, revenge, twists and turns, bullying, secrets, gift, obsession, stalker, husband wife relationship, psychopath, manipulation, surveillance ...
Place: los angeles, california, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.6
 62K
Copycat (1995)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, sexy, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, psychology, psychopath, police investigation, agoraphobia, murder mystery, suspense, maniac, mind game, twists and turns, police detective, profiler ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: san francisco, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 40K
Spider (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style: psychological, bleak, surreal, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot: mental illness, childhood trauma, murder, haunted by the past, paranoia, psychology, insanity, twists and turns, psychopath, misfit, mental patient, suspense ...
Time: 50s, 21st century
Place: london, canada, europe, east end london, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 39K
After.Life (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Following a terrible car crash, a woman (Christina Ricci) awakes to find an enigmatic mortician (Liam Neeson) preparing her for burial.
Style: psychological, mind bending, bleak, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Plot: afterlife, life & death, suspense, mysterious character, psychology, twists and turns, able to see the dead, supernatural, dealing with death, nude, mentor, adaptation ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style: twist ending, suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: memory loss, suspense, amnesia, obsession, psychiatrist, memory, life turned upside down, investigation, uncover truth, psychology, doctors and patients, domestic violence ...
Time: 90s, year 2013, year 1999, year 2007, 2000s ...
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 83K
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, twist ending, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, afterlife, supernatural, psychic, paranoia, hypnosis, murder, clairvoyance, suspense, supernatural horror, rape ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 16K
Jagged Edge (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, neo noir, psychological, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: courtroom, lawyer, court, legal, murder, courtroom drama, twists and turns, suspense, surveillance, women, murder mystery, guilt ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%