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Movies Like Dream Lover

If you liked Dream Lover (1994), a drama and mystery movie directed by Nicholas Kazan, 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. 1Deep Water

    Deep Water (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and mystery

    A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

  2. 2Careful What You Wish For

    Careful What You Wish For (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller

    A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

  3. 3Gone Girl

    Gone Girl (2014)

    ★ 7.9/10Also mystery and thriller

    With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

  4. 4Adulterers

    Adulterers (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and drama

    On a steamy New Orleans afternoon, Sam Deuprey decides to surprise his beautiful wife, Ashley, for their anniversary and comes home early. But Ashley is not alone in the bedroom. She and her lover, Damien are about to…

  5. 5A Perfect Murder

    A Perfect Murder (1998)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama

    Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his…

  6. 6Chloe

    Chloe (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller

    Catherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David is cheating on her, so she hires an escort named Chloe to meet David…

  7. 7Butterfly on a Wheel

    Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller

    A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

  8. 8Heatwave

    Heatwave (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and drama

    A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.

  9. 9Mothers' Instinct

    Mothers' Instinct (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also thriller and drama

    Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly…

  10. 10Sorry, Wrong Number

    Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

    ★ 6.8/10Also thriller and mystery

    Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

  11. 11Tyler Perry's Duplicity

    Tyler Perry's Duplicity (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama

    High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned…

  12. 12Triage

    Triage (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and thriller

    The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

  13. 13Shirley

    Shirley (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller

    A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

  14. 14The Killing of a Sacred Deer

    The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and thriller

    Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who…

  15. 15The Killing

    The Killing (1956)

    ★ 7.6/10Also thriller and drama

    Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George…

  16. 16Manhattan Night

    Manhattan Night (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery

    Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a…

  17. 17Luckiest Girl Alive

    Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller

    A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

  18. 18The Talented Mr. Ripley

    The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

    ★ 7.2/10Also thriller and drama

    Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his…

  19. 19Pacific Heights

    Pacific Heights (1990)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and drama

    A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

  20. 20The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and thriller

    Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect…

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