Movies like Secret Window
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Secret Window (2004)
193K
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:
twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, macabre, tense, twists and turns, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot:
psychology, split personality, insanity, isolation, nervous breakdown, losing-it hero, murder, mentally unstable, stalking, paranoia, divorce, deeply disturbed person, arson, writer's life, ex husband ex wife relationship, investigation, mental illness, hallucination, private investigator, sheriff, stranger, dark killer, police, jealousy, adultery ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
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 twists and turns, suspense, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about secrets, storytelling, psychology, dialogue, mystery, murder and police investigation mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Secret Window: The Number 23 (2007), Shutter Island (2010), Dream House (2011), Primal Fear (1996), Se7en (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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201K
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:
twists and turns, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
obsession, insanity, a vision, losing-it hero, uncover truth, riddles and clues, paranoia, mystery, investigation, secret, escape from reality, parallel world ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
usa, virginia
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100%
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, twists and turns, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, mental institution, mystery, insanity, paranoia, mental illness, psychology, island, uncover truth, hallucination, psychiatrist, isolation ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1945, year 1952, year 1954 ...
Place:
boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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, twists and turns, tense ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, riddles and clues, mystery, memory loss, murder, nervous breakdown, investigation, family relations, crimes, family in danger, mental patient ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
208K
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, twist ending, twists and turns, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
legal investigation, mental illness, courtroom drama, split personality, court, psychopath, hotshot lawyer, corruption, murder, lawyer, dissociative identity disorder, court case ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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1.6M
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, twists and turns, tense, neo noir, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, police detective, police investigation, psychopath, mind game, master criminal, psycho, psychology, powerful ending, homicidal maniac, insanity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Films like Prisoners
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, twists and turns, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, mystery, ghost, death, afterlife, psychology, supernatural ability, psychic, psychic power, life & death, paranormal phenomena, psychiatrist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, twist ending, twists and turns ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, woman in danger, haunted by the past, adultery, couple relations, infidelity, supernatural horror, dishonesty, losing-it hero, spiritualism, seance ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vermont, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
381K
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, bleak, mind bending, twist ending, surprise ending ...
Plot:
insomnia, insanity, mysterious character, uncover truth, obsession, paranoia, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, torment, hallucination, layoff, hit and run ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Movie in collections
382K
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, twists and turns, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Plot:
mind game, mystery, manipulation, uncover truth, psychology, life turned upside down, game, disorder, existentialism, scheme, life philosophy, businessman ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, mexico, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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:
surprise ending, twist ending, macabre, suspenseful, twists and turns ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
voodoo, occult, ghost, black magic, ritual, attic, supernatural horror, paralysis, rite, witchcraft, soul transference, mysterious character ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Films like Se7en
188K
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:
twist ending, surreal, psychological, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
symbolism, paranoia, obsession, mystery, mental illness, delusion, professor, actor, mysterious character, disorder, life turned upside down, lookalikes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
242K
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, mind bending, suspenseful, surprise ending, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, mystery, characters killed one by one, stranded, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, split personality, psychiatrist, motel, psycho, investigation ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
Place:
usa, nevada, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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, twists and turns, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
imaginary friend, psychologist, haunted by the past, split personality, small town, mysterious character, mystery, family problems, family relations, parents and children, death in the family, single father ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
950K
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, twists and turns, surprise ending, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
mystery, missing person, police investigation, murder mystery, missing wife, investigation, manipulation, femme fatale, disappearance, infidelity, adultery, manipulative woman ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, year 2012, 2010s, 2000s
Place:
usa, missouri, new york, manhattan new york city, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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, twists and turns, gothic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, mental patient, psychiatrist, insanity, doctors and patients, doctors, uncover truth, torture, escape, love, medical school ...
Time:
19th century, year 1900
Place:
england, usa, tuscany, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Shutter Island
233K
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:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, intense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, neighbor, paranoia, arrest, loneliness, voyeurism, amateur detective, murder, suspicion, investigation, mystery, bad guy ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
58K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 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, twist ending, atmospheric, twists and turns, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychology, mental institution, lobotomy, supernatural, haunted by the past, mind game, mentally unstable, rivalry, insanity, murder, mental illness, transformation ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
153K
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, suspense, surprise ending, psychological, twists and turns ...
Plot:
stalker, bullying, revenge, secrets, bully, paranoia, stalking, past, husband wife relationship, suspicion, manipulative person, lie ...
Place:
los angeles, chicago illinois, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Movie in collections
46K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
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:
twist ending, psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
claustrophobia, obsession, bunker, mystery, youth, psychology, psychologist, survival, underground bunker, school, male nudity, party ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
wales, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
79K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, surprise ending, confusing, twists and turns ...
Plot:
suicide attempt, suicide, psychiatrist, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, unfulfillment, mental institution, obsession, mystery, patient, mental illness, guilt ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Orphan related movies
983K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, scary, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
isolation, insanity, evil, ghost, supernatural, psychopath, hotel, nervous breakdown, psychic, a vision, caretaker, family in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 1920s
Place:
colorado, usa, denver colorado, montana, oregon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes ...
Style:
twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tricky ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
police investigation, memory loss, psychology, obsession, depression, adultery, train, violence against women, mental illness, psychiatrist, murder, infidelity ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
38K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France
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:
bleak, psychological, mind bending, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, murder, misfit, mental patient, betrayal, mystery, family relations, infidelity, past, delusion ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 50s
Place:
europe, london, britain, africa, east end london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, twists and turns, scary ...
Plot:
murderous pair, honeymoon, wilderness, serial killer, psychopath, paranoia, deception, island, escapades, veteran, ex military, murder ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
hawaii, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Style:
bleak, twists and turns, serious, twist ending, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, promise, justice, murder mystery, crimes, mystery, small town, obsession, law enforcement, track down ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
turkey, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Films like Gone Girl
203K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, tense ...
Plot:
obsession, insanity, loneliness, female psychopath, captivity, mentally unstable, isolation, psychopath, obsessed fan, snow, kidnapping, blizzard ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
410K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, twists and turns ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
invulnerability, train crash, self discovery, supernatural ability, a vision, superhero, villain, mystery, conflict, good versus evil, psychic, survivor ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, 2000s
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
92K
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:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, conspiracy, human nature, murder, experiment, mystery, sacrifice, decision, gift, money, under the surface, mysterious character ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
virginia, usa, langley virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, mystery, uncover truth, obsession, psychology, amnesia, psychiatrist, domestic violence, life turned upside down, woman in danger, doctors and patients, investigation ...
Time:
21st century, 90s, contemporary, year 2013, year 1999 ...
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
187K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
murder, depression, deception, life turned upside down, psychiatrist, mental illness, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, dishonesty, manipulation, patient, mental institution ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, year 2004, 2010s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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