Movies Like Someone to Watch Over Me

If you liked Someone to Watch Over Me (1987), a drama and romance movie directed by Ridley Scott, 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
Sea of Love (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from…
2
Manhattan Night (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller
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…
3
Killer Heat (2024)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and romance
An expat PI is hired to investigate a suspicious death in Crete, Greece, where jealousies run deep amongst the victim's powerful family.
4
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
5
Unfaithful (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and drama
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
6
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.
7
Asylum (2005)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
8
Righteous Kill (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller 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…
9
In a Lonely Place (1950)
★ 7.6/10Also thriller and drama
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
10
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller
A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.
11
Horns (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller
In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.
12
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…
13
Trust (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and romance
Set in the glamour of the New York and Paris art scenes, gallery owner Brooke Gatwick and her newscaster husband Owen Shore, face temptation, jealousy, twists and mystery when two seductive newcomers enter their lives.
14
Blind (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance
A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
15
In Secret (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching…
16
Dead Man Down (2013)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and drama
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
17
Crime of Passion (1956)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a…
18
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and drama
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled…
19
The Naked City (1948)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and thriller
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
20
The First Deadly Sin (1980)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller
A serial killer is stalking New York City. Inspector Edward Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal…