Movies Like The Heart Is a Dark Forest
If you liked The Heart Is a Dark Forest (2007), a drama movie directed by Nicolette Krebitz, 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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Dream Lover (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaNot 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…
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Careful What You Wish For (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaA 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.
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Othello (1951)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaManipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.
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The Thing with Feathers (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaFollowing the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
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Deep Water (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaA 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.
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Mildred Pierce (1945)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaA hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Addicted (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaThree 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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One Hour Photo (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaSy Parrish has lovingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he's part of…
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Faces (1968)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaMiddle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a younger man. As the…
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Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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A Perfect Murder (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaMillionaire 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…
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Hamlet (1996)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaHamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the…
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Undercurrent (1946)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaAfter a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael…
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American Beauty (1999)
★ 8/10Also dramaLester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
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Mothers' Instinct (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaHousewives 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…
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Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
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Spencer (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaDuring her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
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The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaWhen 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.