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Movies Like Sommersby

If you liked Sommersby (1993), a drama and thriller movie directed by Jon Amiel, 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.

  1. 1Intrusion

    Intrusion (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and mystery

    When a husband and wife move to a small town, a home invasion leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem.

  2. 2In the Heat of the Night

    In the Heat of the Night (1967)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and mystery

    African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but…

  3. 3Agatha and the Truth of Murder

    Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and mystery

    England, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder committed on a train six years ago, unable to…

  4. 4Rear Window

    Rear Window (1954)

    ★ 8.3/10Also thriller and mystery

    A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

  5. 5Safe Haven

    Safe Haven (2013)

    ★ 7.2/10Also romance and thriller

    A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

  6. 6Days of Heaven

    Days of Heaven (1978)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

  7. 7Dragonwyck

    Dragonwyck (1946)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.

  8. 8Insomnia

    Insomnia (2002)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller and drama

    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.

  9. 9Eye of the Needle

    Eye of the Needle (1981)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller

    Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber the Needle, a ruthless German spy in possession of vital information about D-Day, takes refuge on Storm Island, an…

  10. 10The Blind

    The Blind (2023)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and romance

    Long before Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson became a reality TV star, he fell in love with Miss Kay and started a family, but his demons threatened to tear their lives apart. Set in the backwoods swamps of 1960s…

  11. 11The Postman Always Rings Twice

    The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

  12. 12The Gift

    The Gift (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller and mystery

    Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

  13. 13Bad Day at Black Rock

    Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and mystery

    One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

  14. 14Reds

    Reds (1981)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of…

  15. 15Purple Hearts

    Purple Hearts (2022)

    ★ 8/10Also romance and drama

    An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.

  16. 16A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and thriller

    A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.

  17. 17Shadow of a Doubt

    Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

    ★ 7.5/10Also thriller and mystery

    In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle…

  18. 18Duel in the Sun

    Duel in the Sun (1946)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

  19. 19The Magnificent Ambersons

    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and romance

    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

  20. 20Jasper Jones

    Jasper Jones (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and mystery

    Fourteen-year-old Charlie's life changes when Jasper takes his help to dispose of the body of his girlfriend, Laura. He decides to look for the murderer and falls in love with Laura's younger sister.

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