Movies Like Murder of Innocence
If you liked Murder of Innocence (1993), a drama and thriller movie directed by Tom McLoughlin, 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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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaSet in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the…
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Neverwas (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thrillerZach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the…
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Shutter Island (2010)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and thrillerWorld War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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Misery (1990)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and thrillerAfter an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write…
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8/10Also dramaThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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Derailed (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thrillerWhen two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
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The Woman in the Window (2021)
★ 6/10Also thrillerAn agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
★ 8.4/10Also dramaA petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
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Fight Club (1999)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and thrillerA ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an…
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The Snake Pit (1948)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaVirginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by…
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Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thrillerA young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
★ 8.3/10Also thriller and dramaClarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for…
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Ordinary People (1980)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaBeth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always…
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Arbitrage (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerA troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
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Primal Fear (1996)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and thrillerDefense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds…
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The Girl on the Train (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerRachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something…
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Spider (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and dramaA mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
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The Experiment (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and drama20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerA psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.
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Dolores Claiborne (1995)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaDolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera…