Movies Like Separate Lives
If you liked Separate Lives (1995), a thriller and romance movie directed by David Madden, 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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Mr. Brooks (2007)
★ 6.9/10Also thrillerA psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
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Copycat (1995)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerAn agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
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Kiss the Girls (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerForensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to…
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Taken 3 (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerEx-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to…
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Crooked House (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerA private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
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He Walked by Night (1949)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerRoy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one step ahead of the cops.
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Striking Distance (1993)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerDemoted Pittsburgh cop Tom Hardy works river patrol while a serial killer targets women from his past, forcing him to conduct an unauthorized investigation to prove his innocence and expose a dirty cop.
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Solace (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerA psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.
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Neighborhood Watch (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerWhen a mentally ill young man thinks he witnesses an abduction and the police refuse to believe him, he reluctantly turns to his next door neighbor – a bitter, retired security guard – to help him find the missing woman.
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Twilight (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerA retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
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Drop (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerViolet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as…
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The General's Daughter (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerWhen the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but…
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All Good Things (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and romanceNewly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
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Faces in the Crowd (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerAnna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerJane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
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Lady in the Lake (1946)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerPrivate eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to…
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Hypnotic (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerA detective becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a string of reality-bending crimes.
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Blue Velvet (1986)
★ 7.6/10Also thrillerThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
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The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerWhen teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary, Karl signs on as a new substitute…
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Basic Instinct (1992)
★ 7/10Also thrillerCatherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.