Movies Like Bad Wives
If you liked Bad Wives (2018), a movie, 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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Starting Over (1979)
★ 6.4/10After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
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Cleveland Abduction (2015)
★ 7.3/10A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
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Goodnight Mommy (2022)
★ 6.3/10When twin brothers arrive home to find their mother’s demeanor altered and face covered in surgical bandages, they begin to suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother.
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Kinds of Kindness (2024)
★ 6.5/10A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman…
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Addicted (2014)
★ 5.9/10A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
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Petulia (1968)
★ 6/10Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's…
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Unfaithful (2002)
★ 6.7/10A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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Poor Things (2023)
★ 7.6/10Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand…
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The Clique (2008)
★ 5.9/10A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.
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Intimacy (2001)
★ 6.2/10Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows…
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Fresh (2022)
★ 6.9/10Frustrated by scrolling dating apps only to end up on lame, tedious dates, Noa takes a chance by giving her number to the awkwardly charming Steve after a produce-section meet-cute at the grocery store.
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The Domestics (2018)
★ 6.2/10A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.
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Villains (2019)
★ 6.2/10When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a…
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Daddy's Head (2024)
★ 5.9/10A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.
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Monster's Ball (2001)
★ 6.8/10A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.
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Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
★ 6.7/10Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he…
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Hider in the House (1989)
★ 6.2/10A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.
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Funny Games (2008)
★ 6.5/10When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to…
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Hard to Die (1990)
★ 6/10While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series…
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Play Dead (2025)
★ 6.3/10A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.