Movies Like Raising Cain
If you liked Raising Cain (1992), a crime and drama movie directed by Brian De Palma, 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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The Call (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and thrillerJordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a…
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6 Souls (2010)
★ 6/10Also horror and thrillerA female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
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Along Came a Spider (2001)
★ 6.4/10Also crime and thrillerAfter the harrowing death of his partner, forensic psychologist and best-selling author Alex Cross cannot forgive himself and has retreated to the peace of retirement. But when a brilliant criminal kidnaps a senator's…
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Split (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and thrillerThough Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls…
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Cape Fear (1991)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and crimeSam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape…
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Cape Fear (1962)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller and dramaSam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and dramaWhen a young girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer…
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Prisoners (2013)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and thrillerAfter his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search…
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Case 39 (2009)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thrillerIn her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the…
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Sisters (1973)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and horrorInquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and…
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I Am All Girls (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thrillerA special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and thrillerWhen athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no…
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The Clovehitch Killer (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and crimeA picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible for the murder of 13…
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Sympathy for the Devil (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thrillerAfter being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.
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Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and horrorRejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane…
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Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller and horrorAn Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
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The United States of Leland (2003)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and dramaA withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl…
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
★ 8.3/10Also crime and thrillerClarice 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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Hunted (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thrillerA woman flees two serial killers who are hot on her heels in a forest.
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Fallen (1998)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and dramaHomicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.