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Movies Like Sweet Dreams

If you liked Sweet Dreams (1996), a mystery and drama movie directed by Jack Bender, 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. 1Stay

    Stay (2005)

    ★ 6.6/10Also mystery and drama

    Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he…

  2. 2Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive (2001)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and mystery

    Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher…

  3. 3Shutter Island

    Shutter Island (2010)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama and mystery

    World 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.

  4. 4The Ritual Killer

    The Ritual Killer (2023)

    ★ 5.8/10Also mystery and drama

    Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an…

  5. 5Sleeping Dogs

    Sleeping Dogs (2024)

    ★ 7/10Also mystery and drama

    Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, is forced to revisit a case he can't remember. As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece together the brutal evidence from a…

  6. 6The I Inside

    The I Inside (2004)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery and drama

    When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and…

  7. 7The Blackout

    The Blackout (1997)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and mystery

    A debauched Hollywood movie actor tries to piece together one wild night in Miami years earlier which remains a drug-induced blur, and soon finds out that some questions about his past are best left unanswered.

  8. 8Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

    Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)

    ★ 7.5/10Also mystery and tv movie

    Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?

  9. 9The Jacket

    The Jacket (2005)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and mystery

    A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

  10. 10The Naked City

    The Naked City (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and mystery

    After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

  11. 11Righteous Kill

    Righteous Kill (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery and drama

    Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the…

  12. 12Suburbicon

    Suburbicon (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery

    In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect…

  13. 13Black Butterfly

    Black Butterfly (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery and drama

    Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried…

  14. 14Too Late

    Too Late (2016)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and mystery

    Private investigator Mel Sampson is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past.

  15. 15Ray Donovan: The Movie

    Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie

    A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past. Each…

  16. 16The Good Doctor

    The Good Doctor (2011)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and mystery

    Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts…

  17. 17Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

    Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (1989)

    ★ 6.7/10Also mystery and tv movie

    While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.

  18. 18Under the Silver Lake

    Under the Silver Lake (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and mystery

    Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to…

  19. 19Puncture

    Puncture (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and mystery

    Based on a true story. Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a brilliant but self-destructive Houston attorney whose drug addiction threatens to destroy his career. When he and his law partner Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) take on…

  20. 20Dead Man's Folly

    Dead Man's Folly (1986)

    ★ 6.4/10Also mystery and tv movie

    During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.

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