Movies Like Writer's Block
If you liked Writer's Block (2022), a thriller movie directed by Aritra Banerjee, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Frank and Penelope (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also thrillerA tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is…
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Black Widow (1987)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerFederal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple…
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Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerWhen a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
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The Experiment (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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The Infernal Machine (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerReclusive 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…
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Light It Up (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also thrillerOn a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.
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Verity (2026)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerLowen Ashleigh, hired to ghostwrite for best-selling author Verity Crawford, uncovers Verity's autobiographical notes, and becomes involved in what may prove to be a lethal conspiracy.
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Rogue Agent (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerConman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
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Body Brokers (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerUtah and his girlfriend Opal, are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting recruited by body broker Wood and offered treatment in Los Angeles, Wood takes Utah under his wing and introduces him to…
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Attraction (2001)
★ 6.9/10Also thrillerA writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
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Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerNeighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
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Blackwood (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerHaving recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home…
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Road to Paloma (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also thrillerWhile Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash, a down and out musician who is…
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6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also thrillerAn adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he…
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The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerA precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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MK Ultra (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerSet during the true and unconscionable Central Intelligence Agency MK ULTRA drug experimentations in the early 1960s. The journey of Ford Strauss, a brilliant psychiatrist, whose moral and scientific boundaries are…
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Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerLarry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own…
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Wardriver (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also thrillerHe’s a Wardriver: a hacker who steals from banks, not people—until he’s noticed. Now the money turns violent, and the woman caught in it could save him or kill them both.
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The System (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also thrillerWhen a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
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The Virtuoso (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerDanger, deception and murder descend upon a sleepy town when a professional assassin accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic boss.