Movies Like My Acting Coach Nightmare

If you liked My Acting Coach Nightmare (2024), a thriller and tv movie movie directed by Glenn Ciano, 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
The Sixth Sense (1999)
★ 8/10Also thriller and drama
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
2
Sister Cities (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and tv movie
Based on the internationally-acclaimed play by Colette Freedman, the story of 4 estranged sisters who reunite for their mother’s alleged suicide.
3
Mothers' Instinct (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and drama
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly…
4
The Whole Truth (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thriller
A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.
5
Inheritance (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller
The patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.
6
Angel of Mine (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and thriller
A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.
7
Infidelity in Suburbia (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and tv movie
With her husband away at work, and her son at school, Laura dreams of a home-renovation project to supplant her restless days. Elliott, her irresistibly hot private contractor, soon fulfills her more forbidden dreams.
8
Cracks (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thriller
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
9
Abducted by My Teacher: The Elizabeth Thomas Story (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also tv movie and thriller
The story of Elizabeth Thomas, a 15-year-old high school student who was groomed and abducted by teacher Tad Cummins.
10
Ken Park (2003)
★ 6/10Also drama and thriller
Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most…
11
A Wife's Nightmare (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller
Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.
12
The Plague (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thriller
A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.
13
The Quiet (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her…
14
Seeds of Yesterday (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and thriller
The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.
15
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and thriller
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect…
16
Byzantium (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.
17
The Reckless Moment (1949)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and thriller
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
18
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and tv movie
Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
19
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and tv movie
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…
20
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
★ 7/10Also drama and thriller
13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams…