Movies Like Lonely Hearts

If you liked Lonely Hearts (2006), a drama and thriller movie directed by Todd Robinson, 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
In Secret (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching…
2
Killer Heat (2024)
★ 5.8/10Also crime and drama
An expat PI is hired to investigate a suspicious death in Crete, Greece, where jealousies run deep amongst the victim's powerful family.
3
The Enforcer (2022)
★ 7/10Also crime and drama
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to…
4
Atonement (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance
A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
5
Sea of Love (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and drama
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from…
6
Lolita (1997)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed…
7
Hollywoodland (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.
8
The Burning Plain (2008)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is…
9
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and…
10
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and romance
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
11
I Am All Girls (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller
A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.
12
What We Hide (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thriller
After their mother dies of an overdose, two sisters hide her body to avoid being separated by the foster system, but as their secret threatens to unravel, they must confront the consequences of their desperate choice.
13
Unfaithful (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and drama
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
14
The Client (1994)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the…
15
Wicker Park (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance
Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a…
16
Careful What You Wish For (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
17
Original Sin (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and drama
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
18
The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
19
Blue Story (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama
Blue Story is a tragic tale of a friendship between Timmy and Marco, two young boys from opposing postcodes. Timmy, a shy, smart, naive and timid young boy from Deptford, goes to school in Peckham where he strikes up a…
20
The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and drama
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.