Movies Like Gerald's Game

If you liked Gerald's Game (2017), a horror and thriller movie directed by Mike Flanagan, 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
Carrie (1976)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and thriller
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent…
2
Mystic River (2003)
★ 7.7/10Also thriller and drama
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
3
Castle Freak (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and drama
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.
4
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and thriller
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics…
5
Spider (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
6
Sleepwalkers (1992)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam…
7
The Boy (2015)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and horror
An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.
8
Becky (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and horror
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
9
The Sixth Sense (1999)
★ 8/10Also thriller and drama
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
10
An American Crime (2007)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and horror
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
11
Baby Blues (2008)
★ 6/10Also drama and horror
On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the mother they have always known and loved.
12
Antichrist (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and horror
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
13
The Number 23 (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and drama
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
14
Swallow (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thriller
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new…
15
Cujo (1983)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and horror
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
16
Room (2015)
★ 8/10Also drama and thriller
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
17
Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also thriller and horror
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…
18
Intruders (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller
Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.
19
Hallow Road (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and horror
Two parents enter a race against time when they receive a distressing late-night phone call from their daughter after she caused a tragic car accident.
20
Primal Fear (1996)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and thriller
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds…