Movies Like The Absent One
If you liked The Absent One (2014), a thriller movie directed by Mikkel Nørgaard, 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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Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerA 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.
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Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also thrillerNothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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Pusher 3 (2005)
★ 7.2/10Also thrillerMilo is aging, he is planning his daughter's 25th birthday, and his shipment of heroin turns out to be 10,000 pills of ecstasy. When Milo tries to sell the pills anyway, all Hell breaks loose and his only chance is to…
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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerWhen college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic…
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Lords of Chaos (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also thrillerA teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.
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Dead Ringers (1988)
★ 7.1/10Also thrillerElliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the…
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Headhunter (2009)
★ 6/10Also thrillerMartin Vinge, former notorious journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated personal life, is in all confidentiality contacted by 85 year-old N.F. Sieger, S.E.O. of Denmark's largest shipping company and…
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No Exit (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also thrillerStranded at a rest stop in the mountains during a blizzard, a recovering addict discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside the building which sets her on a terrifying struggle to…
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
★ 6.5/10Also 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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Goodnight Mommy (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerWhen 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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Cop (1988)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerAn obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
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Payback (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also thrillerWith friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless…
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Wrong Turn (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerJen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain…
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerAfter witnessing his parents' brutal murder on Christmas Eve, Billy transforms into a Killer Santa, delivering a yearly spree of calculated, chilling violence. This year, his blood-soaked mission collides with love, as…
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Red Sparrow (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerPrima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people…
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The Girl Next Door (2007)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerIn a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of…
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Blue Steel (1990)
★ 5.8/10Also thrillerRookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner…
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Single White Female (1992)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerHaving recently split from her fiancé, Allison Jones welcomes new roommate Hedra Carlson. The young women quickly form a bond, but soon Allison begins to notice not all’s well with her new tenant.
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Candyman (1992)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerThe Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
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Natural Born Killers (1994)
★ 7/10Also thrillerTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.