Movies Like Playing with Fire

If you liked Playing with Fire (2025), a thriller and tv movie movie directed by Alexandre Carrière, 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 thriller and 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
Hello (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and tv movie
An emotionally unavailable flight attendant meets a potential love interest and later finds out that her "perfect guy" has ulterior motives. As the clock ticks down on New Year's Eve, she must fight to keep her…
3
Bad Sister (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and 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…
4
Seeds of Yesterday (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and thriller
The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.
5
Your Boyfriend Is Mine (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and tv movie
Over the objection of his girlfriend, Ben agrees to take a job as the “live in” man servant to a wealthy businesswoman, Amanda, but quickly realizes he has made a deal with the devil, and has put himself and his…
6
Mommy Would Never Hurt You (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller and tv movie
Riley wants to rebuild her relationship with her mother and little sister, who are shut-ins due to her sister's illness. When Riley realizes her sister may not be sick, her mother will stop at nothing to keep her…
7
Terror Tract (2000)
★ 6/10Also thriller and tv movie
A real estate agent terrifies a couple with the grim fates of the previous owners of a house they're looking at.
8
Kept Woman (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and 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
TalhotBlond (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movie
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
10
The Night Stalker (1972)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller 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…
11
Love, Classified (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also tv movie
Romance novelist Emilia is a whirlwind who blows back into the lives of her adult children, Taylor and Zach, under the pretense of a book signing arranged by her hometown's local book shop. As Emilia tries to…
12
Buried Alive (1990)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller 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.
13
Secrets at the Lake (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and tv movie
A group of teens make a pact that has deadly consequences.
14
The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
★ 7.5/10Also tv movie
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
15
The Neighbor in the Window (2020)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and tv movie
A suburban wife finds herself and the security of her family threatened by another seemingly friendly neighborhood mom.
16
On Fire (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
Inspired by true and harrowing events, an ordinary man finds his world suddenly torn apart as devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countryside. With precious moments ticking by, he must flee with his son…
17
Petals on the Wind (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also tv movie and thriller
This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.
18
A Sister's Secret (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller and tv movie
Twin sisters secretly swap places on their thirtieth birthday. The harmless prank becomes a nightmare when one of them is murdered.
19
Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…
20
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and tv movie
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.