Movies Like The Tell-Tale Heart

If you liked The Tell-Tale Heart (1961), a tv movie and horror movie directed by Günther Hassert, 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
Infidelity in Suburbia (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also 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.
2
The Woman in Black (1989)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and tv movie
A lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.
3
The Night Stalker (1972)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and tv movie
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into…
4
Megaboa (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and tv movie
On a trip to Colombia, a group of college students encounter a fifty-foot boa constrictor, hungry for blood.
5
Secrets at the Lake (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movie
A group of teens make a pact that has deadly consequences.
6
Stalked by My Doctor (2015)
★ 6/10Also tv movie
When a teenage girl is miraculously saved by a heart surgeon, the doctor begins to flirt with her. Her father doesn’t believe her and unbeknownst to all, the doctor is obsessed with the girl.
7
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movie and horror
Meet the man behind the legend in this true story of Vlad the Impaler, whose vicious and cruel reputation as a bloodthirsty warlord became the basis for the myth of Dracula.
8
Kept Woman (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also tv movie
Jessica and her fiancé Evan have just moved from the city into their dream home on a quiet suburban street. Soon after, Jessica catches her seemingly friendly new neighbor, Simon, in a strange lie and can't let her…
9
The Bad Seed Returns (2022)
★ 7/10Also horror and tv movie
Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to suspect that Emma may not be as innocent…
10
Stalked by My Doctor: The Return (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movie
Dr. Beck, who has changed his name, saves a young teenage girl drowning in Mexico, whom he falls in love with. As always, there are some complications in his way, but he has plans to possibly get past them and get the…
11
Desert Dawn (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movie
A newly appointed small-town sheriff and his begrudging deputy get tangled up in a web of lies and corruption involving shady businessmen and the cartel while investigating the murder of a mysterious woman.
12
Pitfall (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also horror
After a young man is separated from his friends in the woods, he falls into a ten-foot deep pit of spikes, impaling him through his leg and leaving him trapped. He quickly learns that his fall was not an accident.
13
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also tv movie
Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?
14
Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movie and horror
A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.
15
Buried Alive (1990)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and tv movie
A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.
16
Bad Sister (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also tv movie
As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a…
17
Sleeping with Danger (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also tv movie
Inspired by Ann Rule’s true crime collection Mortal Danger and Other True Cases. Paul Carter was like a knight in shining armor when he met flight attendant Grace Tanner and swept her into a passionate love affair. But…
18
Hierarchy (2025)
★ 6/10Also tv movie
In an undisclosed area of Texas after two adoptive brothers become entangled in criminal activity, forced to evade law enforcement and the greedy Russian mafia.
19
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)
★ 7.5/10Also tv movie
A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.
20
The Bad Seed (2018)
★ 7/10Also horror and tv movie
A widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.