Movies Like The Dresser

If you liked The Dresser (2015), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Richard Eyre, 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
Sleuth (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.
2
The Boys in the Band (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.
3
Cracks (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
4
Careful What You Wish For (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also drama
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.
5
Dream Lover (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…
6
From Straight A's to XXX (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and tv movie
When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her…
7
Deep Water (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also drama
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.
8
The Dresser (1983)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to…
9
The Ledge (2011)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist who shares an apartment with a gay friend escalates into a lethal battle of wills.
10
The Catcher Was a Spy (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
11
The Beguiled (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also drama
During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous…
12
American Gigolo (1980)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and…
13
The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.
14
Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)
★ 6/10Also drama and tv movie
Mitch Buchannon, believed to have died in a boating accident survived and only has amnesia, he has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford, resembles his old lover, Lt. Stephanie Holden…
15
Hollywoodland (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also drama
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.
16
Adulterers (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also 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…
17
Firebrand (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.
18
Crimes of Passion (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…
19
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
20
Gone Girl (2014)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
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.